[plug] pls forward to kernel developers

[Leon Brooks]

Tom Atkinson wrote:
> Since installing Kernel 2.2.9

On what distro? 2.2.9 is native to Mandrake 6.0 and I've had no such
fun.

> I have experienced 2 power failures, each
> causing system reboot.

> Following reboot and automatic e2fsck, a file, of size zero, has
> appeared in the directory I was working in at the time of the power
> failure.  No files were missing, and no corruption of the legitimate
> files was evident.  The name of the file, on the most recent occasion,
> was "next"; it was something like "arraylist", or "listelement" prior to
> that.

Sounds like one of your startup scripts relies on an old kernel feature.
What was your kernel version before 2.2.9?