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Subject: Re: filesystem corruption (ReiserFS, 2.6.6): regions replaced by
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From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
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On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 12:24, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> On May-28 2004, Fri, 08:46 -0400
> Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> wrote:
> 
> > > The bottom line: I've experienced file corruption, of the following
> > > nature: consecutive regions (all, it seems, aligned on 256-byte
> > > boundaries, and typically around 1kb or 2kb in length) of seemingly
> > > random files are replaced by null bytes.  
> > 
> > The good news is that we tracked this one down recently.  2.6.7-rc1
> > shouldn't do this anymore.
> 
> So did this only affect SMP machines?

No, if you slept in the right spot you could hit it on UP.

-chris