At 18:14 27-8-2001 +0930, David Lloyd wrote:
Compiling the Linus Linux Kernel 2.4.5 patched by SGI for XFS with the
default gcc installed by RedHat appears to:
Don't use the redhat gcc on production systems.
* fail to unlink files (especially when using vim but other files, such
as images, saved by Opera)
Furthermore, it managed to corrupt my file system to the extent that I
had to run xfs_repair in single user mode. I lost nothing, but...
Interestingly, the prepackaged 2.4.3 release (i.e. SGI had compiled it)
did not display this behaviour.
Probably because it included patches to make the kernel compile decently
with their 2.96 compiler.
Know issue.
Cheers
--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.
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