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From: "Udo A. Steinberg" <sorisor@Hell.WH8.TU-Dresden.De>
To: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 20:52:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A2E98E1.9B9732E4@Hell.WH8.TU-Dresden.De> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012061141300.21407-100000@master.linux-ide.org>

Hi,

Andre Hedrick wrote:
> 
> No way that this could cause corruption it is a read-only test.

As others pointed out, it's probably something related to shared
memory, but it's definitely hdparm that triggers it. I haven't
got the hdparm sources here to look at what exactly it's doing,
but there is corruption going on, not on disk, but definitely in
memory.

-Udo.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-12-06 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-06 17:25 Udo A. Steinberg
2000-12-06 17:40 ` Jan Niehusmann
2000-12-06 18:49 ` Byron Stanoszek
2000-12-06 19:41 ` Andre Hedrick
2000-12-06 19:49   ` Jan Niehusmann
2000-12-06 19:52   ` Udo A. Steinberg [this message]
2000-12-06 19:56     ` Andre Hedrick
2000-12-06 20:04       ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-12-06 20:23         ` Chris Meadors
2000-12-06 22:09           ` H. Peter Anvin

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