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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: Warning, 2.5.3 eats filesystems
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On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 07:59:57PM -0500, Skip Ford wrote:
 > I can confirm inode errors also.  However, I can't be sure it's 2.5.3 that
 > did it.

 Recall that pre3/pre4/pre5 had the missing ext2_inode_info initialisation bug.
 If you booted any of those, and have only just done a fsck, it could
 be a leftover artifact of a now-fixed bug.

 > All of the errors I've had all seemed to be files included in the
 > pre-patch that broke Configure.help into pieces.  I don't know the code
 > well enough, but if the errors could only have happened at file creation
 > then that would rule out 2.5.3.

 Indeed, that change was in pre5, which was the last pre to feature
 aforementioned buglet.

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