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From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: jmerkey@timpanogas.org
Subject: EXT2 data corruption 2.4.17-pre2
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 03:12:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011201031243.B2412@vger.timpanogas.org> (raw)



Al Viro,

I am seeing subtle data corruption of inode data blocks on ext2 
with 2.4.17-pre1/2.  Large files being untarred over and over 
and over again seem to trigger it, but it's hard to reproduce.  
(i.e. I am building patches against several kernel trees).  

I have gotten it to happen twice.  In both cases, I get a CRC 
error in a tar.gz and a message "skipping to next tar header"
furing this error.  The data is totally corrupted in the tar.gz
when this problem shows up.  It takes **HOURS** of heavy 
untarring/diffing/untarring to make it show up.

Jeff


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