Re: File system Corruption with 2.4.16

J Sloan
2001-12-02T06:09:57Z

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