This was taken from LWN:
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There have been consistent reports of file corruption errors in 2.2.9
and beyond. This is a strange problem - it affects relatively
few people, and
has proved to be very hard to nail down. It was initially
thought to be
hardware-related, but enough evidence has come in to strongly
indicate
the existence of a kernel bug.
Alan Cox is hot on the trail of this problem - see his first
and second
summaries of what he has turned up so far. It may well be
that the problem
will have been nailed down by the time you read this; if so,
information can
be found in the LWN daily updates page.
For the links:
http://lwn.net/1999/0624/a/ac-corruption1.html
http://lwn.net/1999/0624/a/ac-corruption2.html
http://lwn.net/daily/
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Now, I realize that this problem is supposedly encountered by a small number of
people but...even if the problem only affects 90% of the users, if you happen to
be that unlucky 10%, though, it would suck like rocks through a straw. (worse -
if you're one of the many frontline grunts trying to convince your boss that
"Linux is better!")
Coupled with the many "problems" (now, I don't mean to belittle others' problems
with Venus but...sometimes, the problem looks worse than it really is.) that
folks seem to be having...perhaps there will be a Mandrake 6.1 in the rather
near future? (I understand there's a lot of stuff in /updates as well).
But maybe we'll wait for XFree86 3.3.3.2? Or (gasp!) 4.0? How about KDE 2.0? ;-)
Regards,
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