Re: file corruption during emacs build on XFS logical volume

[Sean Neakums <sneakums@xxxxxxxx>]

begin  D. Stimits quotation:

> Sean Neakums wrote:
>> I've been unpacking the source fresh for each try.
>
> FYI, file compression is extremely sensitive to marginal ram. If
> unpacking has anything to do with it at all, and not the source of
> the unpack or destination, you should double-check ram with
> memtest86 or something similar. Let it run for many hours.

I ran two passes of memtest-86 a few days ago, after I had that XFS
filesystem shutdown.

I'm not getting any errors at the unpack stage.  I mentioned that I
was unpacking fresh for each try in order to establish that the tree
itself was not b0rked.  Note from my previous messages that the builds
have only failed when I built on XFS, and not when I built on ext2,
and that builds on XFS have succeeded when I use 2.4.14-pre7.  This
just doesn't feel random to me.

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