From: Karl Buck (kxb@cis.ksu.edu)
Date: 04/14/93


From: kxb@cis.ksu.edu (Karl Buck)
Subject: Re: Kernel crash: Need help fixing my Ext2fs
Date: 14 Apr 1993 16:37:03 GMT

umminger@purina.berkeley.edu (Frederick W. Umminger) writes:

> I should mention this also, now that I've noticed it; my
>ext2fs apparently ran out of space, at least for normal users,
>just before the crash. Taylor uucp is taking up 17 megs of disk
>space! How absurd. Has ext2fs been tested extensively for its
>behaviour when it runs out of space?

Well, it is in ALPHA testing. That means you take your own chances. I
just had my msdos and root partitions bleed into each other. I'm not
sure if it was the new lilo (0.10) or the ext2fs or a combination of
the two. The point is if you use stuff in ALPHA testing, you have to
expect the best and the worst at the same time. :)

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