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From: A E Lawrence <adrian.lawrence@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
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Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > > Possibly the result of the 'silent' bug in 2.4.1?
> >
> > you are not the only one who found this bug. immediately after booting 2.4.2 i
> > received dozens of these errors, resulting in _major_ filesystem corruption.
> > after a half hour of fsck'ing i managed to bring the machine back into a usable
> 
> Had you been running 2.4.1 before that ?

I have seen similar problems on stock 2.4.2 a machine which has not run
2.4.1.

ael
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Dr A E Lawrence
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