Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-10 Thread Declan Moriarty
On Sunday 09 December 2001 16:57, you wrote: On Sunday 09 December 2001 9:42 am, Collins Richey wrote: Make sure you get 2.4.16+ (at least 2.4.17-pre1.  2.4.16 causes filessystem corruption (all fs types). Interesting.. I've been running ext2 on 2.4.16 for a couple of weeks now. No

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Kurt Wall
Bruce Marshall wrote: [...] % To tape? Question is, what happens when you restore (perhaps from a % backup system) and then boot the ext3 root. I suppose it all works fine. Yes, it does. I've had no trouble booting with / on an ext3 FS. Kurt -- Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 07:42:59 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---snip--- Make sure you get 2.4.16+ (at least 2.4.17-pre1. 2.4.16 causes filessystem corruption (all fs types). Collins, is there a specific circumstance that fs corruption occurs? Like only on systems with

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 10:14:39 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 07:42:59 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---snip--- Make sure you get 2.4.16+ (at least 2.4.17-pre1. 2.4.16 causes filessystem corruption (all fs types). Collins, is

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 08:24:32 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---snip--- it's listed as - Alexander Viro: fix unmount inode breakage, show_vfsmnt cleanup. Thanks. -- **

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Sunday 09 December 2001 9:42 am, Collins Richey wrote: Make sure you get 2.4.16+ (at least 2.4.17-pre1.  2.4.16 causes filessystem corruption (all fs types). Interesting.. I've been running ext2 on 2.4.16 for a couple of weeks now. No problems. --

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Jim Conner
I know that 2.4.15 had this problem. I thought they fixed it with 2.4.16. Jim On Sunday, December 09, 2001 9:42, Collins Richey wrote: snip Make sure you get 2.4.16+ (at least 2.4.17-pre1. 2.4.16 causes filessystem corruption (all fs types). -- 12:42pm up 20 days, 21:46, 2 users,

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 12:45:16 -0500 Jim Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that 2.4.15 had this problem. I thought they fixed it with 2.4.16. Jim On Sunday, December 09, 2001 9:42, Collins Richey wrote: snip Make sure you get 2.4.16+ (at least 2.4.17-pre1. 2.4.16 causes

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 10:59:20 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 12:45:16 -0500 Jim Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that 2.4.15 had this problem. I thought they fixed it with 2.4.16. Jim On Sunday, December 09, 2001 9:42, Collins Richey

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Jim Conner
On Sunday, December 09, 2001 1:04, Collins Richey wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 10:59:20 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 12:45:16 -0500 Jim Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that 2.4.15 had this problem. I thought they fixed it with 2.4.16.

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 15:55:31 -0500 Jim Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday, December 09, 2001 1:04, Collins Richey wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 10:59:20 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 12:45:16 -0500 Jim Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Keith Antoine
On Monday 10 December 2001 00:42, Collins Richey enunciated: Make sure you get 2.4.16+ (at least 2.4.17-pre1. 2.4.16 causes filessystem corruption (all fs types). NOT as afar as I know 16 dosen't but 15 did. I an running 16 without problems as are others here. -- Keith Antoine aka

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Keith Antoine
On Monday 10 December 2001 02:57, Bruce Marshall enunciated: On Sunday 09 December 2001 9:42 am, Collins Richey wrote: Make sure you get 2.4.16+ (at least 2.4.17-pre1.  2.4.16 causes filessystem corruption (all fs types). Interesting.. I've been running ext2 on 2.4.16 for a couple of

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Chris Kassopulo
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 23:25:24 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While watching S. King's IT on tv. tonight... with the wifey ofcourse... I upgraded my laptop to use ext3. Once installed, I did a couple of tests... namely... I removed the battery and then unplugged the wall adpater

EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-08 Thread Jerry McBride
While watching S. King's IT on tv. tonight... with the wifey ofcourse... I upgraded my laptop to use ext3. Once installed, I did a couple of tests... namely... I removed the battery and then unplugged the wall adpater from the laptop... while in the middle of a compile session... Upon reboot,

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-08 Thread Collins Richey
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 23:25:24 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While watching S. King's IT on tv. tonight... with the wifey ofcourse... I upgraded my laptop to use ext3. Once installed, I did a couple of tests... namely... I removed the battery and then unplugged the wall

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-08 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Saturday 08 December 2001 23:25 pm, Jerry McBride wrote: While watching S. King's IT on tv. tonight... with the wifey ofcourse... I upgraded my laptop to use ext3. Once installed, I did a couple of tests... namely... I removed the battery and then unplugged the wall adpater from the

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-08 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Sunday 09 December 2001 0:40 am, Collins Richey wrote: What kind of a backup?  If you're doing a logical backup (cp -a or some kind of tar), you won't even be aware of the journals.  If you're doing some sort of an image copy of an active filesystem, even without journaling, I would think