Subject: Re: duff pages in middle of file
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 09/24/2003 21:55:31
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:44:17AM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 01:11  AM, Patrick Welche wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone think of a reason for exactly 0x400 contiguous bytes 
> > (0x1000-0x13ff)
> > of a 1Gb file (1024^3 bytes) (postgresql database) to be replaced by a 
> > bit
> > of my /var/mail/prlw1 (often mmapped by mutt)? It (i386) ran a 17 Sept 
> > kernel
> > for a day, and 18 Sept ever since. I think the corruption happened on 
> > the
> > 17th. The disk is
> 
> Hm..  Less than a page size.  But 2 sectors worth.

possibly 1 fragment?

> Just making an observation.
> 
>          -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
> 
> 


	David

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