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Subject: Re: reiserfs: still problems with tail conversion
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On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:

> In article <878610000.983061717@tiny> you wrote:
> > Exactly.  The tail conversion code depends heavily on the page up to date
> > bit being set right.  It is more than possible that I've screwed up
> > something there, and the code thinks a page is valid when it really isn't.
>
> I have seen null byte corruptions in syslog files with ext2 in various
> kernels. So perhaps it is a general VFS problem?

aol.. none since 2.4.0 release here though.

	-Mike

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