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On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 11:58:00AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

 > It might also be that it causes some massive corruption at boot time,
 > but it then requires that that particular memory is actually used. So
 > maybe it's not so much about the memory map except indirectly.

I wonder if this might explain the XFS corruption I've been seeing
the last couple days.  Won't be able to get at the affected laptop
until Monday to find out..

	Dave