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On 01/23/2018 11:59 AM, Wol's lists wrote: |
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> On 23/01/18 17:35, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>>> Wonderful ... just finished a complete reload of Gentoo. Now have to |
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>>> redo it again ... |
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>>> ... the mistake? I used ext2/ext3 for the fs. |
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>> Abandoning ext4 over retpolines/etc seems a bit drastic. My guess is |
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>> that there is a bug in the latest kernel that will get fixed, or maybe |
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>> a bug in gcc (which needs to be patched for spectre anyway). |
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> Did you use the ext2/ext3 driver? I believe it's been abandoned? |
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> The ext4 driver is compatible with 2/3 file systems, so as I |
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> understand it all development effort goes into the ext4 driver, and |
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> any problems with the older drivers is likely to be met with "upgrade |
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> your driver". |
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> So if you were using that driver, it could be suffering bit-rot. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Wol |
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Sometime back the kernel devs decided to 'remove' the ext2 / ext3 fs |
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drivers. |
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The ext2 / ext3 fs drivers are NOT available. |
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Any choice of ext2 / ext3 forces the use of the ext4 fs driver. |
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If I could use the real ext2 / ext3 fs drivers ... |
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... I would in the blink of an eye. |
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ext2 / ext3 are the definition of 'stable' file systems. |
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ext4 .... unstable, still in development, prone to breakage. |
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