Re: 2.3.7-pre5 file corruption

George Bonser (grep@shorelink.com)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 23:08:09 -0700 (PDT)


On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Ingo Molnar wrote:

>
> On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, George Bonser wrote:
>
> > In my testing of pre-6 I also noticed the same. Got a big dump of binary
> > data right in the middle of an oops report. I could not tell where it is
> > coming from, there were certainly a lot of zeros in it ( ^@ ) but it was
> > probably a few hundred bytes. The file itself looks ok, just looks like a
> > pile of raw binary data got shoved into it.
>
> Linus has fixed the bug - it should be in pre8. Do you have any similar
> problems with pre8?

I still had some fsync trouble with pre8 but pre9 appears to be better so
far. Also, an SMP kernel works now on a UP system (this is important to me
because I like to build one kernel that works on all of our machines).

Will continue looking for junk in the kernel log.

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