Yep... 2.0.31 munched my entire filesystem at one point a couple days
ago.
fsck -y ran for about 20 minutes scrolling error messages so fast I
couldn't read them, after that the system wouldn't even load the kernel.
Fortunately I had a DAT backup barely three hours old of the whole
system, so was able to mkfs, reinstall a base system, then restore with
bru, but it was a major disaster.
2.0.31 is ridiculously unstable. I really don't understand why the 31st
revision (not counting all the "pre-" versions) of what is supposedly
the Linux "stable" kernel could be such a disaster.
I've dropped back to 2.0.31-pre9, which I remember was OK.
Michael
-- Michael Nelson nelson@seahunt.imat.com San Francisco, CA michaeln@csd.sgi.com