Chris Samuel wrote:

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Caveat: there is a known ext3 filesystem corruption bug in 2.6.19 and 2.6.19.1, it's apparently hard to trigger (though someone said they got it through just compiling).

Hmmm... hadn't read about that yet. We generally don't recommend ext3 for more than /boot and maybe smaller / and other partitions. Not trying to light off a file system war here.

If you are a Linux Weekly News subscriber (and if you're not you probably should be, it's a great news resource) you can read about it here (should be

Allow me to second the LWN.net recommendation.

freely available at the end of the week when the next weekly news comes out):

 http://lwn.net/Articles/215113/

Bugzilla entry for the compiling case:

 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7707

Joe
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