Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

2001-11-28 Thread Adam Warner
On Sun, 2001-11-25 at 12:18, Craig Dickson wrote: > Adam Warner wrote: > > > I had rebooted multiple times trying to fix a halt problem. Everything > > seems OK but it looks like I can't risk running reiserfsck anyway. I'm > > probably going to have to wait until reiserfsck is improved. > > Which

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

2001-11-25 Thread csj
On Sunday 25 November 2001 08:45, nate wrote: > the first problem i encountered when trying to boot 2.4.x(i think > it was .5 or .6) was an "illegal instruction" on every binary > i tried to use. this was with compiling with athlon optimizations. FWIW I've also been trying to compile 2.4.x kernels

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

2001-11-24 Thread nate
Stig Brautaset said: > Not trying to sound like a wise-guy here, but I don't think you > should blame the kernel's stability for you failing to make it > boot. > > Sounds more like a configuration error to me (which is ok, I > remember the config being a bit different from 2.2.x to 2.4.x...). i s

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

2001-11-24 Thread Craig Dickson
Adam Warner wrote: > I had rebooted multiple times trying to fix a halt problem. Everything > seems OK but it looks like I can't risk running reiserfsck anyway. I'm > probably going to have to wait until reiserfsck is improved. Which sounds to me like a superb argument against using reiserfs... t

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

2001-11-24 Thread DvB
Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > nate wrote: > > > problems like this is why i believe 2.4 is not near > > stable yet, and why i won't be usin it for at least 10-11 more > > months on anything including test systems. > > Your call, of course, for your machines. But in general I've fou

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

2001-11-24 Thread Stig Brautaset
* nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Craig Dickson said: > > > Your call, of course, for your machines. But in general I've found > > 2.4 to be pretty decent. I had something like two months of uptime > > with 2.4.9 before I decided to upgrade it to 2.4.12-ac3, which in > > turn ran for a few

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

2001-11-24 Thread Adam Warner
On Sun, 2001-11-25 at 00:08, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > I've seen some people here talking about the new 2.4.15/2.5.0 kernel. > Please, don't use it. It'll cause some corruption on your filesystem > when unmounting filesystems. My optimism that 2.4.15 would finally be a good release was obvio

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

2001-11-24 Thread nate
Craig Dickson said: > Your call, of course, for your machines. But in general I've found > 2.4 to be pretty decent. I had something like two months of uptime > with 2.4.9 before I decided to upgrade it to 2.4.12-ac3, which in > turn ran for a few weeks flawlessly before I decided to upgrade to > 2

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

2001-11-24 Thread Craig Dickson
nate wrote: > problems like this is why i believe 2.4 is not near > stable yet, and why i won't be usin it for at least 10-11 more > months on anything including test systems. Your call, of course, for your machines. But in general I've found 2.4 to be pretty decent. I had something like two mont

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

2001-11-24 Thread Stig Brautaset
* nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Jeronimo Pellegrini said: > > > > I've seen some people here talking about the new 2.4.15/2.5.0 > > kernel. Please, don't use it. It'll cause some forruption on your > > filesystem when unmounting filesystems. > > problems like this is why i believe 2.4 is

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

2001-11-24 Thread nate
Jeronimo Pellegrini said: > > I've seen some people here talking about the new 2.4.15/2.5.0 > kernel. Please, don't use it. It'll cause some forruption on your > filesystem when unmounting filesystems. problems like this is why i believe 2.4 is not near stable yet, and why i won't be usin it for a

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

2001-11-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:00:29AM +0800, csj wrote: > Is this a time-lapsed post? No... > Isn't -greased-turkey supposed to be 2.4.15-final? It was supposed to be final, but it is broken. > Or are we looking forward to a final 2.4.15-final, > 2.4.15-cold-turkey? 2.4.15 should have been a fin

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

2001-11-24 Thread csj
On Saturday 24 November 2001 20:11, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 12:51:14PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: [...] > > Could you please post the url to the tread that discusses this? > > Look for these strings: > "2.4.15-pre9 breakage" > "2.4.15 problem: deleted inodes still pre

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

2001-11-24 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Veit Waltemath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011124 12:17]: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 10:11:06AM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > > > Look for these strings: > > "2.4.15-pre9 breakage" > > "2.4.15 problem: deleted inodes still present in ext2" > > "2.4.15: FS corruption on EXT2" >

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption) [BANDAID]

2001-11-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Veit Waltemath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 10:11:06AM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: >> "2.4.15: FS corruption on EXT2" > >Only on EXT2 or on all fs, i'm using EXT3. All filesystems. The broken versions are

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

2001-11-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 07:10:49PM +0100, Veit Waltemath wrote: > > Look for these strings: > > "2.4.15-pre9 breakage" > > "2.4.15 problem: deleted inodes still present in ext2" > > "2.4.15: FS corruption on EXT2" > > Only on EXT2 or on all fs, i'm using EXT3. Not

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

2001-11-24 Thread Veit Waltemath
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 10:11:06AM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 12:51:14PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: > > * On 24-11-01 at 12:09 Jeronimo Pellegrini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > +Here quoted text begins+ > > > See the linux kernel mailing list for more det

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

2001-11-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 03:34:59AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 09:08:21AM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: >> >> I've seen some people here talking about the new 2.4.15/2.5.0 kernel. >> Please, don't use it. It'll cause some forruption on your filesystem >

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

2001-11-24 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 09:08:21AM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > I've seen some people here talking about the new 2.4.15/2.5.0 kernel. > Please, don't use it. It'll cause some forruption on your filesystem > Am using it. Haven't faced any problems. -- Sridhar M.

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

2001-11-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 12:51:14PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: > * On 24-11-01 at 12:09 Jeronimo Pellegrini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > +Here quoted text begins+ > > See the linux kernel mailing list for more details. > Could you please post the url to the tread that discusses this? Look

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

2001-11-24 Thread Bostjan Muller
* On 24-11-01 at 12:09 Jeronimo Pellegrini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ > > I've seen some people here talking about the new 2.4.15/2.5.0 kernel. > Please, don't use it. It'll cause some forruption on your filesystem > when unmounting filesystems. [...] > If you'v

Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

2001-11-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
I've seen some people here talking about the new 2.4.15/2.5.0 kernel. Please, don't use it. It'll cause some forruption on your filesystem when unmounting filesystems. If you're running it, do this: - Go into single-user mode (init 1) - sync - umount everything not busy - remount the rest read-o