I've seen a few badly broken Ethernet cards out there which corrupt
busmaster read accesses if the CPU talks to them while a memory-to-disk
transfer is taking place. Thus the data on your HD gets corrupted while the
in-memory copy is still good, and the problem won't be noted until you
have flushed the data and need to read them back. :-(
-- Matthias Urlichs noris network GmbH- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu