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, it

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 l

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-08 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 00:29:01 -0500 Bruce Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

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 thi

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Chang
Is it *SAFE* to adopt it by upgrading to 2.4.16? > Now that ext3 has been merged into the 2.4.x mainline, there's > absolutely no excuse for being at risk when the unexpected occurs. > You can convert an ext2 filesystem to ext3 on the fly.. -- The pivotal point is the "second chance", judged

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 end

Re: EXT3 on laptops...

2001-12-09 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 09 Dec 2001 16:26:05 +0800 Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it *SAFE* to adopt it by upgrading to 2.4.16? > > > Now that ext3 has been merged into the 2.4.x mainline, there's > > absolutely no excuse for being at risk when the unexpected > occurs. > > You can convert an ext2 files

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 sp

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). > > > >

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: > 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, load

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: > > > 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, Co

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 >

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]> > >

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 'skipp

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 coup

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 a

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 > no