[OpenAFS] Cache file system (ext2) corruption with 1.3.84

Dr A V Le Blanc Dr A V Le Blanc <LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk>
Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:04:53 +0100


I wrote:
> I am running openafs 1.3.84 on Debian sarge machines with kernel
> 2.6.11.11 and openafs-client 1.3.81-3sarge1 from the Debian repository;
> the kernel and openafs.ko modules are compiled with gcc 2.95.4 from
> sarge.

On Fri 10 Jun 2005 at 01:30:58 -0700, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
> That's an odd choice of compilers.  I'm not saying that this is the
> problem, but I thought that 2.6 generally preferred something of more the
> 3.3 vintage or later.

I've actually tried gcc-3.3 as well for the 2.6 kernels, but the
same problem occurs; the 2.95.4 seemed a more conservative choice,
but in fact I haven't used only that.

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk