Re: 1352 NUL bytes at the end of a page? (was Re: Assertion `s && s->tree' failed: The saga continues.)

Andrew Morton
2004-05-18T01:42:48Z

Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> wrote:
>
> > I'd really like to see this happen on some other machine though. It'd be
> > funny if you have a dud disk drive or something.
>
> We can easily rule that out. Steven, do a
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=USE_SOME_SPACE bs=1048576 count=500
>
> which will eat up 500 MB and should eat up any bad blocks. I _really_
> doubt it is a bad disk.

Yes, me too. The sensitivity to CONFIG_PREEMPT makes that unlikely.

Two things I'm not clear on:

a) Has is been established that CONFIG_PREEMPT causes ppp to fail?

b) Has the file corruption been observed when PPP was not in use at all?