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SubjectRe: ext2 errors with 2.0.31 *Me TOO*
linux kernel account <linker@nightshade.z.ml.org> wrote:
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-> Not to start a scare or anything..
->
-> I just found my root paratition on my main webserver majorly foobed
-> EXACTLY the way you are describing.. Badblocks says the hdd is good..

Yep... 2.0.31 munched my entire filesystem at one point a couple days
ago.

fsck -y ran for about 20 minutes scrolling error messages so fast I
couldn't read them, after that the system wouldn't even load the kernel.
Fortunately I had a DAT backup barely three hours old of the whole
system, so was able to mkfs, reinstall a base system, then restore with
bru, but it was a major disaster.

2.0.31 is ridiculously unstable. I really don't understand why the 31st
revision (not counting all the "pre-" versions) of what is supposedly
the Linux "stable" kernel could be such a disaster.

I've dropped back to 2.0.31-pre9, which I remember was OK.

Michael




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Michael Nelson nelson@seahunt.imat.com
San Francisco, CA michaeln@csd.sgi.com

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