From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 14 7:21:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC0F915317 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 07:21:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (tc14-216-180-35-39.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.35.39] (may be forged)) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA01483; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 09:21:43 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37650FF6.E1A0FA@airnet.net> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 09:21:42 -0500 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Non Illegitemus Carborundum. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Kelly Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SGI Donated Journalised FS Source to Linux References: <199906140306.WAA30138@nospam.hiwaay.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Kelly wrote: > Then again I haven't run that many FreeBSD systems but have a similar > track record with filesystems. Prior to March 1995 I ran Linux until it > ate my filesystems 3 times in one week. Never could get Linux running > well enough to do any work. First week with FreeBSD was rough. But > clear sailing and all smiles ever since. Taken from a local Linux list: > Unfortunately another critical delivery has reared its ugly head and I'll > therefore miss another fest. If anyone runs across a solution to my problem > during the course of the fest, please let me know. The problem is this: > > Certain systems with a PIIX3 IDE chipset (VX motherboard) are susceptible to > filesystem/file corruption using kernel 2.2.x. I've tested 2.2.5 and 2.2.9. > Both will do damage. Other systems have been affected, but I haven't heard > of many. Kernel 2.0.36 is rock solid, so it is definately something someone > has done with the 2.2.x kernels. I have _two_ machines with the VX chipset I require to work correctly. This would be totally unacceptable for me. Trashing a 3.2G drive that is full of data is _not_ _good_. -- Kris Kirby ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message