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From: J Sloan <jjs@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: File system Corruption with 2.4.16
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Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote:

> The symlink problem you're reporting is exactly what i've been experiencing among
> other things ...
> on both systems i had multiple ext2 partitions and one reseirfs partition.
> The problem showed up after a few days of uptime. Both machines where not heaviliy
> loaded and had no memory shortage.
> It looks like it also happened on my third system, which had only 2 ext2 partitions
> . I was able to clean up this one with fsck and rebooted safely to 2.4.14 ....
> Given the fact that i'm not the only one to see the problem with 2.4.16 i'll safely
> backtrack all my machines to 2.4.14 ...
> If i can be of any help to pinpoint the problem please let me know. But since i'm
> not a kernel hacker i don't think i'll be pluging into the sources myself on my own

Interesting - maybe I'm just lucky, but my
systems have never been more stable than
they are now under 2.4.16 -

The plot thickens!

jjs

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