EXTRAVERSION =-greased-turkey

EXTRAVERSION =-greased-turkey

[ISP Client]

Very funny.

Now, can we return to leaving that for the user/vendor in future releases?

Please?

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Re: EXTRAVERSION =-greased-turkey

[Russell King]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 08:59:37AM +0800, ISP Client wrote:
> Now, can we return to leaving that for the user/vendor in future releases?

I'd suggest reading a linux-kernel or an archive site, and pulling Al Viro's
2nd patch for 2.4.15 inode.c problems.

2.4.15 has the potential to corrupt your filesystems slightly on reboot.
Al provides a safe method to reboot without this corruption, but it will
still be a good idea to force a fsck on boot, using:

	shutdown -F -r now

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Re: EXTRAVERSION =-greased-turkey

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Russell King wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 08:59:37AM +0800, ISP Client wrote:
> 2.4.15 has the potential to corrupt your filesystems slightly on reboot.
> Al provides a safe method to reboot without this corruption, but it will
> still be a good idea to force a fsck on boot, using:
>
> 	shutdown -F -r now
>

*Slightly* corrupt? Isn't that like being *a little* pregnant? :-)

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Re: EXTRAVERSION =-greased-turkey

[Rik van Riel]

On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, ISP Client wrote:

> Very funny.
>
> Now, can we return to leaving that for the user/vendor in future releases?
>
> Please?

user/vendor releases are made by the distributions, not
by Linus/Alan/Marcelo (who release developer versions) ;)

regards,

Rik
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Re: EXTRAVERSION =-greased-turkey

[Jeff Garzik]

Russell King wrote:
> 2.4.15 has the potential to corrupt your filesystems slightly on reboot.
> Al provides a safe method to reboot without this corruption, but it will
> still be a good idea to force a fsck on boot, using:
> 
>         shutdown -F -r now

Or,

touch /forcefsck

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Re: EXTRAVERSION =-greased-turkey

[summer]

rmk@arm.linux.org.uk said:
>  2.4.15 has the potential to corrupt your filesystems slightly on
> reboot. 

Thanks to those who wrote suggesting this greased turkey doesn't fly. 
It's back to .13 for me.

Fortunately I hadn't actually rebooted.
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