Re: file corruption during emacs build on XFS logical volume

[Sean Neakums <sneakums@xxxxxxxx>]

begin  Sean Neakums quotation:

> begin  Steve Lord quotation:
>> I don't think there is much point going back to earlier kernels to
>> be honest. I will fire up an emacs build here, on a non-lvm
>> partition for starters.
>
> I went back to my 2.4.14-pre7 CVS pull, and the build went perfectly
> on the XFS volume.  But it seems that that kernel doesn't have
> preempt applied, so I'll rebuild 2.4.17-xfs without the patch, to
> eliminate that possibility.

I'm now running a fresh build of 2.4.17, without the preempt patch.
emacs reliably fails to build on the XFS volume, and builds
successfully on the ext2 volume.

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