Re: SMP filesystem corruption in 2.3.40 (and before) with sawmill "make install"

From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Date: Sun Jan 23 2000 - 10:45:31 EST


Simon Kirby <sim@stormix.com> said:
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 02:17:43PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Simon Kirby wrote:

[...]

> > > I'm running on a dual processor box with 128 MB ECC SDRAM, and I've
> > > noticed this back in the days when sawmill 0.15 was current (when I first
> > > started using it). The problem seemed to have gone away (or happened
> > > less often, I suppose) in the last few weeks, but now it just happened
> > > twice in a row again, when I reinstalled sawmill from within X.

> > Urgh... How long ago had it started? It sounds like buffer/page cache
> > aliasing. Was it there before 2.3.7?

> Well, I've noticed it happening occasionally ever since I started using
> sawmill, and that was back when sawmill 0.16 was out. I can't seem to
> find anything that says the date when 0.16 was relesed, but I was
> probably running the newest 2.3 at the time (before 2.3.25, for sure).

> Hmm...Now I can't seem to reproduce it anymore. :( I think it might only
> be happening when I install a new version that has never been installed
> before (this is when I see it, now that I think of it). However,
> deleting the directories and installing the newest version again doesn't
> seem to show the problem. Hmm...

My filesystem screwups here aren't so predictable as yours.

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