Re: File system Corruption with 2.4.16

J Sloan (jjs@pobox.com)
Sat, 01 Dec 2001 22:08:36 -0800


Stephane Jourdois wrote:

> I destroyed a hard disk yesterday with 2.4.16, using ext3. A heavy load
> (compiling The gimp and several other things) and everything came bad, symlinks
> didn't work... (for exemple ln -s linux-2.4.17-pre2 linux did a link from linux
> to linux either using linux-2.4.17-pre2 and /usr/src/linux-2.4.17-pre2.

hmm, I am using ext3 in a few places, but
for the most part I am using the tried and
true ext2 -

> Just in case : debian sid, gcc 2.95.4, everything up to date.

Another difference -
I am using the rock solid gcc-2.96!

> We're living in a dangerous world, since 2.4.10...

Since 2.4.10, my systems have been great!

(I administer about 40 Linux boxes)

cu

jjs

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/