Re: mkfs.ext2 triggerd RAM corruption

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Sat May 05 2007 - 15:13:13 EST



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.


Jan
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