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Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 20:27:15 -0700
From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
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On Jan 05, 2002  17:47 -0700, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Ah! You're using LVM! There are known bugs in LVM which cause memory
> corruptions. I told Heinz about this on 16-DEC, but it appears the CVS
> tree hasn't been updated yet. So grab the latest CVS tree (which fixes
> some bugs) and then apply the appended patch (which fixes more
> bugs). You definately need both. The patch should be applied in the
> drivers/md directory.

Hmm, my understanding was that the LVM CVS already had this patch
applied, but I could be wrong...  In any case, I haven't seen anything
about updating the kernel LVM to match CVS since Alan merged in his
-ac LVM code into 2.4.15 or so.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/

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