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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