Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: All the problems with 2.2.8/2.3.x and bdflush/update | Date | Fri, 14 May 1999 21:34:22 -0400 | From | "David J. Fred" <> |
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>Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 19:29:48 -0400 >From: Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu>
>1. Don't run update with 2.2.8. It's unnecessary and it's causing >filesystem corruption for some people. This has to be a bug somewhere >else in the kernel; update is simply calling sync() every thirty >seconds.
Have the cases of corruption been detectable with 'fsck -f' or is the data itself corrupted, rather than the filesystem structure?
This information would be helpful to determine how to proceed with systems which were running 2.2.8 and update.
Thanks,
David
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