Re: Fatal filesystem bug?

[Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Peter.

Please re-read what I wrote.

> > I might have triggered a bug, but I haven't looked into where it's at.
> > If it's the filesystem or the kernel.
> >
> > I downloaded the 2.4.15-pre7 kernel from cvs and I ran it for 24 hours
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^

> > about.
> >
> > Today I went into a directory to run a program and the binary was ..
> > broken. Couldn't load.
> >
> > Tried recompiling from source and that failed too, so I looked at the
> > source file and it was missing the end of the file.
> > It was my source so I gather it was the last bytes that were missing.
>
> Stefan,
> If you were running 2.4.15-pre9, I'd say it was the new major oops in the 
> kernel. Fixed in 2.4.16pre1.  In case you somehow got caught, here are Al 
> Viro's suggestions on fixing it.
<snip>

// Stefan