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Stephane Jourdois wrote:

> I destroyed a  hard  disk  yesterday  with  2.4.16,  using  ext3.  A  heavy load
> (compiling The gimp and several other things)  and everything came bad, symlinks
> didn't work... (for exemple ln -s linux-2.4.17-pre2  linux did a link from linux
> to linux either using linux-2.4.17-pre2 and /usr/src/linux-2.4.17-pre2.

hmm, I am using ext3 in a few places, but
for the most part I am using the tried and
true ext2 -

> Just in case : debian sid, gcc 2.95.4, everything up to date.

Another difference -
I am using the rock solid gcc-2.96!

> We're living in a dangerous world, since 2.4.10...

Since 2.4.10, my systems have been great!

(I administer about 40 Linux boxes)

cu

jjs

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