Re: "Bad write on page" ?

[Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@xxxxxxx>]

With the kernel included with the RH71 XFS installer I can't reproduce
this anymore.


On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 05:19:38PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:

> > My coworker's machine does it too. Athlon 800, 128MB memory, 10GB system 
> > disk,
> > 80GB data disk, all filesystems XFS, no usrquota. A "dd if=/dev/zero of=foo
> > bs=32768k count=128" on his 80GB partition gives no kernel messages, but a
> > subsequent "dd if=foo of=bar bs=32768k" starts spamming after about 256MB.
> 
> Hm, I'm having trouble duplicating this.
> 
> 128M box, 8GB XFS disk, all standard mount & mkfs options.
> 
> $ dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=32768k count=128
> $ dd if=foo of=bar bs=32768k
> 
> gives me no error messages...
> 
> I did see the "Bad write on page" error when I ran out of space while
> filling a filesystem with the above commands, though.
> 
> -Eric