Eric Sandeen writes:
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Jason White wrote:
>
> > The kernel I am running is:
> > Linux jdc 2.4.17-xfs #1 Sat Jan 19 16:47:16 EST 2002 i686
> > (checked out from cvs on that date).
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Hi Jason - Yes, my suggestion would be to please upgrade your kernel
> and see if it goes away.
I upgraded and the problem appears to have gone - probably the 2.4.17
> mmap issue. After a few further crashes and db_recover operations,
> whatever corruption was in the Berkeley db databases was,
> presumably, cleaned away; and I haven't experienced any failures since.
> I understand that you may not want to bring
> your system to 2.4.19 yet, but the XFS that was in 2.4.17
> in the paleolithic days of Jan 2001 is quite different from the code
> in CVS today. If you can boot it up for a trial, it would be very
> helpful, as we really aren't able to go back to debug 9 month old
> code.
That's fine. I am one of those who would defend the developers' policy
of only supporting the latest code (except perhaps for customers who
take out service contracts, but that's a different issue).
Thank you for your help and with apologies for adding unnecessary traffic to the
list.
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