Re: All the problems with 2.2.8/2.3.x and bdflush/update

David J. Fred (djf@ic.net)
Fri, 14 May 1999 21:34:22 -0400


>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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