Re: Massive e2fs corruption with 2.2.9/10?

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 16:58:18 +0200 (MEST)

Harald Koenig wrote:
> On Jun 18, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > >[eastep@eastep-3 eastep]$ cat /proc/version
> > >Linux version 2.2.10 (eastep@eastep-3.mis.tandem.com) (gcc version
> > >egcs-2.91.66
> >
> > Does the corruption go away if you use a compiler that is not known to
> > miscompile the kernel, eg 2.7.2?
>
> I had at least two ext2fs corruptions plus two SIGSEGs due to bad bits
> in binaries in buffer cache (emacs/mutt) and one full lockup,
> all with 2.2.9/2.2.10 compiled with 2.7.2.3 (SuSE 6.1).

My SuSE 6.1 compiles 2.2 kernels with egcs. Add -v2.7.2 or something
like that to /usr/src/linux/Makefile for "CFLAGS". (For an example,
take a peek in the 2.0.36 kernel sources that come with SuSE 6.1....)

Roger. 

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