Re: Filesystem corruption on i686 with 2.3.x kernels?

Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Mon, 13 Dec 1999 09:36:29 -0700


Horst von Brand writes:
> Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca> said:
> > Horst von Brand writes:
> > > I'm seeing this here (2.3.20 up to 2.3.31pre1 with jumps between),
> > > enough to scare me from using 2.3 at all. Strangely, 2.3.20 ran for
> > > quite some time with a very similar configuration on a plain Pentium
> > > without eating any filesystems. Recently several people posted their
> > > .config files (for unrelated reasons), and _noone_ was running a
> > > kernel configured for i686. Coincidence?
>
> > I expect so. I've been running 2.3.x kernels as they come out, and
> > have had no problems.
> > Dual PIII/450 and AMD K7/500 systems.
>
> I've got PII UP, SR440BX mobo, Red Hat 6.1 egcs,
> binutils-2.9.5.0.22. Any others with/without problems?

Hm. I wonder if your compiler/binutils are the source of the problem?
I've got gcc 2.7.3.1 and binutils 2.9.1.0.7. How certain are we that
egcs is OK for the kernel?

Regards,

Richard....
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Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca

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