Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Nelson <> | Date | Fri, 7 Nov 1997 17:20:52 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: ext2 errors with 2.0.31 *Me TOO* |
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linux kernel account <linker@nightshade.z.ml.org> wrote: -> -> 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
-- Michael Nelson nelson@seahunt.imat.com San Francisco, CA michaeln@csd.sgi.com
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