Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:46:12 +0000 | From | Tom Eastep <> | Subject | Re: Massive e2fs corruption with 2.2.9/10? |
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roel@grobbebol.xs4all.nl wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 09:32:15PM +0000, Tom Eastep wrote: > > roel@grobbebol.xs4all.nl wrote: > > > > Ditto here -- 2.2.10, IDE, VIA MPV3, egcs 2.91.66 > > > > I have since installed gcc 2.7.2.3 for kernel compiles and have seen no > > reoccurence in 11 days (fingers crossed). > > and again... 2.7.2.3 caused filesystem corruption on 2.2.9 and 2.2.10. > > note that I have a full list of people who have sent me in private their > problems -- who can I send the results to ? > > reinstalling 2.2.7 and doing heavy disk io ( swapping, mandb, updatedb, > news.daily and kernel makes for several hours) won't fail. >
FWIW, here's another data point:
When I suffered the filesystem corruption, I had also been seeing a repeatable devfs problem. I had reported the problem to Richard who was unable to reproduce it.
After I got my /usr partition put back together, I did "make clean; make bzImage modules modules_install" and installed the new kernel. At that point, I was still using egcs 2.91.66. The devfs problem went away and I ran without corruption for several days until at Linus's suggestion, I dropped back to gcc 2.7.2.3.
Yesterday, I built a new kernel which failed to boot. Again, "make clean; make bzImage" produced a working kernel. I had kept the non-bootable kernel around and noticed that it was significantly larger than the one that worked.
In both instances (FS corruption/devfs-wierdness and unbootable kernel), I had been changing the modularization of the kernel. In the first instance (FS corruption/devfs), I had been moving drivers between kernel and modules. In yesterday's case, I changed from a modularized kernel to a monolithic one.
Except for these two cases, 2.2.10 has been solid. It has also been solid on my server (SMP, AIC7xxx) where I almost never change the kernel configuration.
-Tom -- Tom Eastep Compaq Computer Corporation Tandem Division tom.eastep@compaq.com
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