Re: [BUG] Truncate problem still in test8 final

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Sat Sep 09 2000 - 13:58:49 EST


On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Ben Collins wrote:

> I don't know too much about this bug, but this is what happened to me. My
> mail spool (mbox format, read with mutt) kept getting filled with null
> bytes at the end. Interesting part (which may be a clue) is that it was
> also getting ksyms mapped to the end of the file (twice this happened).
> I'm not sure if it came from System.map, or from memory.

        a) Can you reproduce it in -pre6?
        b) did you do forced fsck after running test8-pre*?
        c) what does forced fsck say now?

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