Re: file corruption during emacs build on XFS logical volume

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 14:07 4-1-2002 -0600, Steve Lord wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 12:54, Sean Neakums wrote:
> > begin  Sean Neakums quotation:
> >
> > > I am now going to do a build of the upstream source and see if I can
> > > make the dump break on that too.  I'm hopeful that it will, as the
> > > unexec code is the same in upstream as in the Debian emacs21
> > > package.
> >
> > Yep, I just got me a dumped emacs binary full of NULs with the
> > original GNU source.
>
> OK, bingo, I can replicate this now, I too have a bad binary, it looks
> like the memory is getting reclaimed without getting flushed out to
> disk - which is not good at all.
>
> This actually gives me something to go on, hopefully it won't take too
> long to find now. Thanks for your persistance in generating a test
> case here.

This might explain the fs corruption that some other people saw as well on 
2.4.17-xfs.

I can't remember who it was, i'll look it up.

Cheers

--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.