Re: Server recommendations?
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 05:02:02PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 01/16/07 15:42, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:54:09AM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 10:18 -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> >>> But not the 2.6.18-3 kernel, which, as of yesterday, was still the
> >>> default kernel for etch. See bug 401006.
> >> OKAY, Hendrik. STOP with the nitpicking. This is a bug that has been
> >> screwing with Linus hisself for a while, and even in 2.6.20 is NOT
> >> FIXED.
> >
> > Ouch.
> >
> >> Please, understand that, *IN GENERAL* the 2.6.18 kernel is a good
> >> choice.
> >>
> >> I have been using 2.6.18 SINCE it entered Sid, I have had zero issues
> >> with it. Unless people are using specific setups with also using torrent
> >> software doing HEAVY downloading... using file hashing and mysnc(), they
> >> are not likely to hammer this bug. *I* have done heavy downloading and
> >> have gotten into the exact same green-zone for this bug and haven't
> >> experienced it.
> >
> > I hit this bug by doing an installation! Nothing more than that. I
> > can't use the installed system because the file system is already
> > corrupted by the time I finish installing packages, as documented in bug
> > reports I have filed. I haven't been using bittorrent or any heavy
> > downloading *except by using the installer and aptitude to install
> > packages*.
>
> What FS are you using?
It failed with jfs.
It failed with ext2.
There's a sarge system in another partition that works perfectly, so I
don't think it's hardware (of course, it *could* be...)
-- hendrik
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