On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 12:22:28AM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Ok I could reproduce it as well:
> 1) create a large file, larger that ram size
> 2) please don't use "dd if=/dev/zero", the file should be random,
> otherwise md5sum won't detect twisted sectors.
>
> 3)
> $ (md5sum file&);(md5sum file&);(md5sum file&);(md5sum file&);
> < wait until it created the sum>
> < repeat>
>
> I replaced the file with "/dev/hda3", and the hash numbers were always
> identical.
> It seems that the problem is SMP specific, at least I couldn't reproduce
> it on my AMD K6.
>
> Any known page cache corruptions in these kernel? (filesystem: ext2)
Yes, there was a problem with the queueing changes in 2.3.41pre4 that
caused a problem with the IDE code. If you're not using IDE, it may be
something else, but otherwise, try 2.3.46pre4 or newer.
Simon-
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