From: card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD) Subject: Re: EXT fs Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 13:31:40 GMT
In article <Bz4497.E8I@citrus.SAC.CA.US> qumqats@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Joel M. Baldwin ) writes:
>wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
>: dd435157@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Dan Doner) writes:
>: >Why does the FAQ still call the ext fs beta? Is it any more beta than the
>: >rest of linux?
>:
>: The author of the extended filesystem calls it alpha (there was just
>: recently an announcement for version alpha 11).
>
>Is anyone using the efs having any problems with bad directorys appearing?
>I end up having to reboot every few days to run efsck just to clean up
>the bad directorys that keep showing up.
>
>I'm running 0.98pl4 with the efs 10.1 code and the latest C-news.
>I figure the cause of the bad dirs is either a bug still somewhere in the
>efs code, or somewhere in C-news.
>
>Am I the only one still having this problem?
Well, I think that the problem with bad directories (a bug in the dirs
handling routines) has been corrected in 0.98pl6. If you can, upgrade to a
newer version of the Linux kernel or get the file extfs.p6.Z which is available
by ftp on ftp-masi.ibp.fr and on tsx-11.mit.edu in the directory
/pub/linux/ALPHA/extfs. Then, apply the patch to the kernel sources, rebuild
a kernel and boot from it. Note that the latest release of efsck (from version
10.1) are able to correct bad directory entries.
>
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>
>Joel M. Baldwin
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Remy