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[bug report] NUL-filled files after crash & recovery

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Subject: [bug report] NUL-filled files after crash & recovery
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 21:53:05 -0400
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Due to some trouble with my X server (DRM, *sigh*) I just had a couple
of quick crashes while logging off X sessions.  But upon restart, I've
found that some files in my home directory that were likely being
written at crash time -- .xmms, .galeon, and .licq -- ended up filled
entirely with NULs ('\0').

I'm running Andrea Arcangeli's kernel, which is based on 2.4.21pre7
but which contains quite a lot of VM development, as well as an update
to: "SGI XFS 1.3.0pre2 with ACLs, no debug enabled".  When I reported
this problem to Andrea, he suggested I pass on the report to this list,
because he could think of no reason for it in his patches.

Any help?  Clues?  Please?  I fear I may be stuck with either
downgrading to ext3 or abandoning Andrea's kernel....
-- 
Chip Salzenberg               - a.k.a. -               <chip@xxxxxxxxx>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
    but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early."  // MST3K


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