Sender: root AT squid DOT netplus DOT net Message-ID: <37BD679B.C43FBFF7@netplus.net> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:35:07 -0500 From: Steve Bergman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mandrake CC: "pgcc AT delorie DOT com" Subject: Madrake 6.0 filesystem corruption, etc. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. ;-)