From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from systemhalted (CPE00207807b093.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [24.112.180.230]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2CBB4829 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:13:43 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 15:13:19 -0500 From: Carlos O'Donell To: Thibaut VARENE Cc: Grant Grundler , jsoe0708@tiscali.be, "Vlad D. Markov" , parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] kernel panic when extracting large tar files Message-ID: <20030107201319.GA20757@systemhalted> References: <20030107091704.GC4093@dsl2.external.hp.com> <05456AF0-223D-11D7-950D-0030656F07A2@esiee.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <05456AF0-223D-11D7-950D-0030656F07A2@esiee.fr> Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: > Matthieu Delahaye told me that since the very first days of pa/linux; > this bug has existed, mostly happening on 'un-taring' files, obliging > users to untar by small chunks of data. And hardware errors have existed since the beggining of time ;) > FWIW, I experienced that bug too on the A500, had no time to chase it > down but I will look at it soon. How big is the file? I routinely tar/untar _very_ large source archives on my A500 and I see no problems. c.