Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)
On Saturday 24 November 2001 20:11, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 12:51:14PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote:
[...]
> > 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.
Is this a time-lapsed post? Isn't -greased-turkey supposed to be
2.4.15-final? Or are we looking forward to a final 2.4.15-final,
2.4.15-cold-turkey?
> > 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)...
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