Re: mkfs.ext2 triggerd RAM corruption

[Bernd Schubert]

On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 09:12:02PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On May 5 2007 14:57, Theodore Tso wrote:
> >On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 03:36:37AM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> >> distribution: modified debian sarge, in which aspect is the distribution
> >> important for this problem? mkfs2.ext2 is supposed to write to /dev/sdaX
> >> and not /dev/rd/0. Stracing it and grepping for open calls shows that
> >> only /dev/sdaX is opened in read-write mode.
> >
> >/dev/rd/0?  What's this?
> 
> devfs (hint hint) naming for /dev/ram0.

Yep, but udev knows devfs style ... (I already told I tested vanilla
kernels, so no patches).

Bernd
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