Forum OpenACS Development: OT: Kernel Version 2.4.15 - DON'T USE

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Posted by Jon Griffin on
I would like to warn everyone about kernel 2.4.15.(Linux)

It has a nasty little problem of wiping out your file system. Other than that it is great :(

2.4.13 is fine.

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Posted by Don Baccus on
There's already a patch out and a 2.4.16-pre1 ... still, this seems a pretty unexcusable lapse.

It only wipes out your filesystem on a clean shutdown, if your system crashes, hey, you're OK!  Man, what a PITA.

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Posted by Mike Sisk on
This was discussed on slashdot the other day. My favorite comment:
See, if this was open source someone would have read the source code and seen the problem before it was released. Oh, wait....

From what I can gather there seems to be some friction between Alan Cox and Linus on what's being allowed in the stable kernel. Alan seems to feel that Linus is allowing potentially unstable things in. Maybe so.

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Posted by Phillip Thurmond on
No doubt that this is something that you don't want in your stable tree, but saying that it will wipe out your filesystem is an exageration.  All of the errors caused by this bug can be fixed by fsck.ext2.  Also, the bug only occurs when filesystems are unmounted.  Anyways, it's all moot now I guess since 2.4.16 is out.