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SubjectRe: Massive e2fs corruption with 2.2.9/10?
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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