Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 18:49:42 -0800 From: Dave Tweten <tweten@nas.nasa.gov> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.3-RC Kernel Buffer Corruption (Was: 4.3-BETA makeworld of current STABLE Fails) Message-ID: <200103240249.f2O2ng602441@gilmore.nas.nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: Message from Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> of "Fri, 23 Mar 2001 18:20:32 PST." <200103240220.f2O2KWZ89481@earth.backplane.com>
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dillon@earth.backplane.com said: > A hexdump of that reproducably corrupted file would be invaluable. Is > the contents of the corruption the same every time (in the > reboot/buildworld case) or different? Sorry, but I can't help you right now. I'm in the throws of rebuilding current world with my February 16 kernel to bring my utilities from February 16 to today. After I spend an hour or so getting some breakfast, I'll come back and try to answer this question. > Is it always at or near the end of a file (within the last 8K) or > sometimes in the middle? Large files sometimes or only small files? I found it in the middle (though closer to the end) once and at the end of short files (< 10K) the other times. -- M/S 258-5 | 1024-bit PGP fingerprint: | tweten@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center | 41 B0 89 0A 8F 94 6C 59 | (650) 604-4416 Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 | 7C 80 10 20 25 C7 2F E6 | FAX: (650) 604-4377 We each earn what freedom of speech we defend for those who most offend us. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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