Re: Warning, 2.5.3 eats filesystems

From: Heinz Diehl (hd@cavy.de)
Date: Wed Feb 06 2002 - 18:30:51 EST

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On Wed Feb 06 2002, Daniel Pittman wrote:

> > 2.5.3 managed to damage my ext2 filesystem (few lost directories);
> > beware.

> I can confirm that there are filesystem corruption issues with 2.5.3;
> after this message I rebooted and did a forced fsck which turned up
> around a half dozen inodes where the block count in the inode itself was
> too high.

Exactly the same thing here, and I bet it _is_ 2.5.3 and not a relict from
a 2.5.3-pre patch because I switched directly from 2.4.17 to 2.5.3
without ever using any pre patch at this machine.

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# Heinz Diehl, 68259 Mannheim, Germany
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