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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