Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Nov 2001 17:56:43 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.15 + fs corruption. |
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On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, war wrote:
> Is 2.4.15 ok to use? > Many people are experiencing filesystem corruption? > > As long as you patch the kernel with Al Viro's patch it should be ok, > right?
In theory. Again, as a workaround - sync before umount (and don't boot unpatched 2.4.15/2.4.15-pre9 again, obviously).
Breakage happens when you umount filesystem (_any_ local filesystem, be it ext2, reiserfs, whatever) that still has dirty inodes.
IOW, if you are running 2.4.15 - build a patched kernel, install it and do the following: * switch to single-user * sync * umount everything non-buys * remount the rest read-only * turn the thing off * boot with patched kernel or with anything before 2.4.15-pre9
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