Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

[Jeronimo Pellegrini <pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br>]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 12:51:14PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote:
> * On 24-11-01 at 12:09 Jeronimo Pellegrini (pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br) wrote:
> +----Here quoted text begins----+
> > See the linux kernel mailing list for more details.
> Could you please post the url to the tread that discusses this?

Look for these strings:
"2.4.15-pre9 breakage"
"2.4.15 problem: deleted inodes still present in ext2"
"2.4.15: FS corruption on EXT2"

in the following page:

http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0111.2/index.html

Or, to go right to the beginning of one of the threads:

http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0111.2/1656.html

There is a fix by Al Viro and another by Andrea Arcangeli; they're still
discussing to find out which is better. There may be a 2.4.15-final
soon.

> +----and here the quote ends----+
> I have been using it for second day now, have rebooted (reiserfs
> filesystem + ext3 fs and have had no problems whatsover with it).

The problem is that after deleting inodes, they're not removed from the
directory if you don't sync before unmounting the filesystem (so there
is a chance they were synced and you didn't have problems)...

J.

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