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Re: DON'T USE 2.4.15(!!) (was: Re: Local SuSE mirror)
- To: guy keren <choo(at-nospam)actcom.co.il>
- Subject: Re: DON'T USE 2.4.15(!!) (was: Re: Local SuSE mirror)
- From: mulix <mulix(at-nospam)actcom.co.il>
- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 00:23:36 +0200 (IST)
- Cc: Gold Edward <avieal(at-nospam)inter.net.il>, Linux Israel <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
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- In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSU.4.30_heb2.09.0112040015090.7114-100000@actcom.co.il>
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On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, guy keren wrote:
>
> On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Gold Edward wrote:
>
> > We ended up on RH7.1 (2.4.10 & updated afterwards to 2.4.15).
>
> 2.4.15 has a bug that may (and does) cause it to trash filesystems. don't
> use this version - immediastly reset your system, boot with the older
> kernel, and upgrade to some other version (2.4.13, or if 2.4.16 is out -
> then probably 2.4.16. 2.4.14 has a bug that does not allow using
> loopback mounts, unless you add a few lines of fixed code).
2.4.16 is out and is stable on all accounts. 2.4.17pre2 is out as well,
if you want to live on the (stable) bleeding edge.
as for 2.4.15, dont forget to force fsck after you boot from it to a new
kernel. otherwise you could get *silent* data corruption - not a nice
thing by any stretch of the imagination.
for more information on this bug, peruse this list's archives, the linux
kernel mailing list archives, slashdot or any other linux news source of
your liking.
p.s. to fix 2.4.14 you have to remove two lines, not add. i know, i
konw, nit picking. can't help it.
--
mulix
http://www.pointer.co.il/~mulix/
http://syscalltrack.sf.net/
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