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Date:	Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:35:07 -0500
From:	Steve Bergman <steve AT netplus DOT net>
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CC:	"pgcc AT delorie DOT com" <pgcc AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Madrake 6.0 filesystem corruption, etc.
Reply-To:	pgcc AT delorie DOT com

Hi,

I bought a copy of MDK6.0 a while back and have been testing it.  I have
some concerns and am interested in other people's experiences with it.

I have run it on 4 different machines:

HP Netserver 100MHZ pentium
Generic 450MHZ AMD-K6-3
Generic 300MHZ AMD K6-2
TI TravelMate 5200 laptop

Shortly after I installed it on the 450MHZ machine (a day or so), I had
a power failure.  Whereas I expected to see the usual "Deleted inode has
0 dtime()" stuff, this was much worse than usual, with many inodes
deleted.  After it came up, X wouldn't work and I'm not sure what else
was affected.  I just reinstalled since so many files were destroyed. 
The 300MHZ machine acted kind of the same way once.  Much more was
destroyed by fsck than is normal for when a relatively quiescent machine
loses power.  On the laptop, I had the same experience.  Although it had
been at least several minutes since I had written to ~/.kde, that
directory turned up missing and I lost my whole kde config.

Another thing I noticed was that when I installed on the HP, everything
was fine except that the seagate STT88000 (TR4 ide tape drive) would
oops as soon as I tried to access it.  A reinstallation didn't help.  I
installed RedHat 6.0 and everything was fine.  The exabyte TR4 ide tape
drive on the 300MHZ machine works fine with either distro.

I have searched alt.os.linux.mandrake and no one else seems to be having
these problems.  I know that there are known problems with compiling 2.2
kernels with PGCC, but are there also known problems with the resulting
binary?

Mandrake is a very nice distro, so I would be happy to hear that it's
just me that's jinxed and not the distribution.

BTW, I believe that the mandrake std kernel is compiled with:

-O2 -mpentium -march=pentium -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -fnortti
-fno-exceptions -expensive-optimizations

Sincerely,
Steve Bergman

P.S.  For the pgcc mailing list people, yes, I am on the list. ;-)

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