Re: force_shutdown experienced

[Stephen Lord <lord@sgi.com>]

Robert Sander wrote:

>On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 07:39:38AM -0600, Stephen Lord wrote:
>
>>Well, two things happened to you - the forced shutdown, and the bug 
>>which Ralf Bergs
>>mentioned. That bug was fixed on Jan 17th - a current cvs kernel should 
>>get you around
>>that one. The bug caused the superblock to get overwritten after forced 
>>shutdown.
>>
>
>I have heard (or better read) of the bug, but did not correlate the two.
>
>>Note if you get the new kernel and you use ACLs you need new user space 
>>utilities to go with the kernel.
>>
>
>Or I compile the compatability layer into the kernel. How is that
>working?
>
There is no compatibility layer, at 2.4.18 the system calls change. 
Maintaining both
in the kernel was going to be a nightmare.  I am not sure what the 
current status is
with third party apps like samba - I think some people have it working.

Steve