Re: UMSDOS partition and debian
Rick Macdonald said:
> I've had /home and my debian mirror and a few other things on a UMSDOS
> filesystem for quite awhile. I just upgraded to 2.0.25 a couple of
> weeks ago. Before that I was running 2.0.6. I never noticed any problems
> compared to 1.2.13 or whatever it was that I used to run.
The real problem is with SCSI, which causes kernel stack overflows. For IDE,
all I could find was a problem with the unlinking of inodes. For normal use,
this wasn't a problem. But, for the convoluted ways in which dselect/dpkg
handle safe package upgrading, this caused a problem in that UMSDOS could not
unlink an inode for a file which was in use (such as /bin/bash when trying to
upgrade bash while using bash as your shell).
I believe I saw something in the Changes for 2.0.26 or 2.0.27 which mentioned
inode removal under UMSDOS (or maybe it was DOS) which may fix the problem,
but I haven't had time (or reason) to check it out yet.
--
Scott Barker
Linux Consultant
scott@galileo.cuug.ab.ca
http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~barkers/ (under construction)
[ I try to reply to all e-mail within 3 days. If you don't ]
[ get a response by then, I probably didn't get your e-mail. ]
[ Unsolicited commercial and junk e-mail will be proof-read for US$100 ]
"You wanna know how to nail Capone? This is how you nail Capone: he pulls a
knife you pull a gun, he puts one of yours in the hospital, you send one of
his to the morgue. THAT'S how you nail Capone."
- Sean Connery in "The Untouchables"
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to Bruce@Pixar.com
Reply to: