*URGENT* Re: Another slip in the FC6 schedule

Phil Meyer pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com
Wed Oct 18 01:59:21 UTC 2006


Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Alfredo Ferrari (list at pceet030.cern.ch) said: 
>   
>> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH??
>>
>> Are you telling us (We have lot of filesystems with a 1k blocksize) that
>> the kernel update for FC5 just issued and dutifully installed on all
>> our systems (including a 100 CPU cluster) has "ONLY" this minor bug that 
>> it can destroy a fair fraction of our filesystems?
>>     
>
> IIRC, it does not corrupt, it only causes a BUG() (crash).
>
> Bill
>
>   
and only when extremely busy with lots of small files.

Hopefully none of us have /boot partitions that are busy, but it is 
still disconcerting.




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