Re: Kernel 2.4.18 and xserver

[Michel <mi...@da...>]

On Fre, 2002-12-27 at 22:44, Krystian Bacławski wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 20:06, Krystian Bacławski wrote: 
> > > 
> > > I'm using 2.4.18 kernel and I experience a few problems with it. It's
> > > quite stable but try to install xserver 4.x.x and you will start running
> > > through the minefields :) I've lost one ext2 partition and two reiserfs
> > > because of xserver 4.1.0 running on 2.4.18. I found out that this version
> > > causes data corruption while writing to harddisk. Xserver 4.2.1 is a bit
> > > better it doesn't cause data coruuption while writing to "/" partition,
> > > but sometimes it trashes swap partition (what randomly crashes programs)
> > > and after a xserver's restart every(!) program ends with "segmentation
> > > fault" error.
> > 
> > The X server can't really do that, sounds rather like a kernel or
> > hardware problem.
> 
> Yes, I thought that, but with 2.2.10 everything was ok...

Probably a kernel problem then.


> > Besides, I wouldn't recommend ReiserFS, not even on i386.
> 
> It's not reiserfs specific problem, remember I've also lost ext2
> partition (and then my kernel didn't have reiserfs support compiled in).

Sure, ext2 has a smaller chance than any journalling filesystem to
survive a crash, but at least it's usually reliable in normal operation,
whereas ReiserFS lost all data on one of my filesystems from one second
to another. Fortunately, it contained no valuable data, but I considered
that a warning and managed to convert my important filesystems to XFS in
time. No serious problems since then, even with lots of crashes. Just
FYI...


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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast