Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:15:56 +0100 | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: 2.0.37 crashes immediately |
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On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:00:31AM +0100, Stefan Ring wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Dr. Kelsey Hudson wrote: > > > Is there a reason you are using a relatively new machine like that with > > such an outdated and arcane kernel (and distribution, for that > > matter)? I'd suggest you upgrade to a more recent kernel and/or > > distribution...it'll be a lot more stable (and not to mention secure!) > > Every version above 2.0.36 behaves the same (from the 2.0.x series). > Gee, I should have said a few words about my intent. Of course, I'm > not actually using these old versions of everything. I just wanted to > run a 2.0.x kernel to do some hardware testing, and since 2.0.x can't > access the new ext2fs with the spare superblock option, I thought, I > might be up and running fastest by installing a RH distribution still > using the 2.0.x kernel. It just happened that RH4.2 was the only one I > had handy at that moment.
Actually, v2.0.39 _does_ cope with sparse superblocks.
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