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Re: LVM causing memory corruption

To: "Keith Owens" <kaos@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: LVM causing memory corruption
From: "Ralf G. R. Bergs" <rabe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 12:04:09 +0100
Cc: "linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <20829.1010314346@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au>
Reply-to: "Ralf G. R. Bergs" <rabe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Sun, 06 Jan 2002 21:52:26 +1100, Keith Owens wrote:

>On Sun, 06 Jan 2002 10:55:47 +0100, 
>"Ralf G. R. Bergs" <rabe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>On Sun, 06 Jan 2002 12:23:12 +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
>>>This just appeared on linux-kernel.  It might throw some light on
>>>recent bug reports about LVM.
>>[...]
>>>> LVM version 1.0.1-rc4(ish)(03/10/2001)
>>>
>>>Ah! You're using LVM! There are known bugs in LVM which cause memory
>>>corruptions.[...]
>>
>>Does anyone know whether this bug also pertains to cases where LVM is 
compiled  
>>as a module, but isn't (actively) used?
>
>LVM has no effect when it is a module that has not been loaded.
>However compiling the kernel for MD (required for LVM) does affect the
>base kernel.  Without going through all the differences between the
>kernel MD/LVM code and the code in the MD/LVM CVS tree, any statement
>would be a guess - I don't want to guess.

I *did* compile the kernel for MD (altho I'm not using MD either,) so 
theoretically I could be affected. I guess I need to recompile the kernel 
again and have another go...

Thanks!


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