From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Subject: Re: LZO irreversible output?
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:32:27 +0000
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Cc: tuxonice-devel@lists.tuxonice.net, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
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On 8 Feb 2010, Nigel Cunningham verbalised:
> That said, the actual code that TuxOnIce uses does already initialise
> the variable to PAGE_SIZE, so it seems that I might just have to run
> with the checking code enabled (with this fix) for a while, until the
> issue is found.

If you push the fix somewhere I'll run with it as well and see if I can
make this problem happen again. (So far I've only seen it with both
compression and max_workers > 1, but I haven't done a systematic check
for this so it could be an illusion.)