Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 07:41:03 -0500
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From: "Eric Sandeen" <sandeen@sgi.com>
To: "David Lloyd" <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
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Subject: Re: GCC|KGCC + Redhat + Linux-2.4.5
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Hi David - Yes, using Red Hat's stock gcc has resulted in some strange
behavior before.  The hunch is that all of XFS's 64-bit code does not
get along well with some versions of gcc.  All of our RPMs were built
with "kgcc" which is probably why they do not exhibit this behavior.

-Eric

David Lloyd wrote:
> 
> Compiling the Linus Linux Kernel 2.4.5 patched by SGI for XFS with the
> default gcc installed by RedHat appears to:
> 
> * fail to unlink files (especially when using vim but other files, such
> as images, saved by Opera)
> 
> Furthermore, it managed to corrupt my file system to the extent that I
> had to run xfs_repair in single user mode. I lost nothing, but...
> 
> Interestingly, the prepackaged 2.4.3 release (i.e. SGI had compiled it)
> did not display this behaviour.
> 
> FYI
> 
> DSL

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Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
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