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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : behoffski <behoffski@grouse.com.au>
  Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 07:54:43 +0930

Re: RedHat 7.1 reliability?

behoffski wrote at Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:50:07 +0930:

> [Apologies if this is a duplicate... bjh]

Wow, a time traveller :-)


> Richard Sharpe wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I was wondering what people's experience with RH7.1 was?
>> 
>> I have just spent a week in a room with 11 PCs all running Rh7.1, and we 
>> saw almost all of the have file system damage.  Some several times.
>> 
>> This seems unusual.
> 
> 
> I tried installing 7.1 on a VIA chipset system, and found that 
> while the install would be fine, major corruption of partitions 
> would occur later when two IDE disks were accessed together 
> (i.e. copying files from one disk to another).  

No VIA chip set here. Good ol' Intel PIIX4 or whatever.

> 7.1 has the 2.4.2 kernel.  Looking at the kernel change logs, 
> I noticed that 2.4.3 had a workaround and 2.4.4 had an "official" 
> fix from VIA for the kernel to fix disk corruption problems... 
> so I've upgraded to 2.4.5, and all has since been well (running 
> for about 10 days, and file copies that previously guaranteed 
> a failure have executed without a hitch).  
> 
> The ability to change a major component like the kernel without 
> having to change the entire system is one place where GNU/Linux 
> really shines.  

What's with this GUN/Linux shit? Has RMS been browbeating you as well :-)

 

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