Re: [2.3.99pre2] [CORRUPTION] Doh! Corruption problems again...

From: Ben Collins (bcollins@debian.org)
Date: Tue Mar 21 2000 - 23:56:52 EST

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> - Booting "nosmp" seems to make the problem disappear (the problem seems
> to be SMP specific).

I noticed this with APIC enabled on a UP system. Disabling it did fix it
too.

> - The problem only seems to happen when copying files between drives
> (copying on the same filesystem does not seem to reproduce it).

Not true. I get the problems simply by fscking the drive (8 gig
partition).

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