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Re: Using debug and tracing features in 2.4.26

To: Jeremy Jackson <jerj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Using debug and tracing features in 2.4.26
From: Craig Tierney <ctierney@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 13:04:47 -0600
Cc: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 19:51, Jeremy Jackson wrote:
> Steve Lord wrote:
> 
> > Any reason for turning on debug? It adds thousands of checks to
> > the code base, any one of them will oops if it triggers. Never
> > run this way with data you care about.
> >
> So I've been causing the problems I'm seeing by turning debug on?
> I'm getting a debug related oops about every 2 months, but wouldn't 
> turning debug off just cause silent data corruption?
> 
> I don't recall reading any dire warnings in the help for the configure 
> option, although it does say for XFS developers only.
> 
> If it is the official recommendation, I will turn it off.


Have you actually found any data corruption?  Or you just see
oopses every once and awhile, but those might not cause corruption?

Craig




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