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Hi, now that Ingo+redhat have discovered the cause of the ext2 corruption under heavy load of 2.4.x a couple of -preX patches ago (BTW ext2/3 gurus - what is the difference between bforget() and brelse() - I'm a bit too dense to understand the explanation given in the -pre patch?) I wonder whether you folks are still finding heavy load corruption problems for 2.4? [My production servers are

Following the announcement on lkml, I have started using ext3 on one of my servers. Since the server in question is a farily security-sensitive box, my /usr partition is mounted read only except when I remount rw to install packages. I converted this partition to run ext3 with the mount options "nodev,ro,data=writeback,defaults" figuring that when I need to install new packages etc,

Hello, I''m going to be helping a friend setup Shorewall in place of his Cisco router on his home network. Shorewall will be acting as the router/firewall gateway for internet access for his home LAN. His connection to the ISP is via PPPOE. Nothing unfamiliar here to me. It will be a standard 2 interface setup. My curiosity was peaked when he said that he is going to be installing