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To: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: Warning, 2.5.3 eats filesystems
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From: Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>
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Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 15:59:16 +1100
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On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
> 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.

I jumped directly from 2.4.18pre1 to 2.5.3, and I didn't see any issues
with the 2.4 kernel in the time I ran it.

This doesn't rule out a pre-existing corruption, of course, but it seems
to me unlikely in the extreme. Er, in my case, of course. I can't speak
for others.

        Daniel

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