[plug] pls forward to kernel developers

[Tom Atkinson]

Leon Brooks wrote:
> 
> 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?

Hi Leon,

It was version 2.2.5 and the distro was COL 2.2.  Given the current
situation regarding the bug causing corruption to ext2 filesystems, I
felt my bug report could be of interest.

Can you be more specific regarding on the "kernel feature"?

Cheers,
Tom Atkinson