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Linux 2.4.16 Released

Posted by timothy on from the good-kernel-follows-bad dept.

tekniklr writes: "They just released Kernel 2.4.16. Download it here, and you can read the changelog here. This hopefully fixes the error that 2.4.15 had of corrupting filesystems on unmount." Update: 11/26 14:14 GMT by T : p.s. Don't forget to look in the mirrors.

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  1. RedHat by ultrabot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I suppose these later 2.4 kernels will get a good number of downloads, due to the early version of the kernel shipped w/ Red Hat 7.2 (and the fact that they finally got ext3 into the main kernel tree). At least I'm semi-restlessly waiting for a kernel to settle on, to get that new "better" VM.

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  2. Re:Trashed Here by gazbo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I believe he was trying to imply that the only way you could lose 24GB of data with this bug is to use fdisk in place of fsck.

    It would seem to be you, sir, who has the misplaced +1 mod. The previous poster wasn't modded up either, he just posted at 1.