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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:27:52 +0200
From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
       "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
       Alessandro Rubini <rubini@vision.unipv.it>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: PS3 Storage Driver O_DIRECT issue
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This driver (or the generic PS3 code) has appearently problems with
O_DIRECT. 
glibc aborts parted because the malloc metadata get corrupted. While it
is reproducible, the place where it crashes changes with every version
of the debug attempt.
I dont have a handle right now, all I know is that the metadata after a
malloc area get overwritten with zeros.


Can you have a look at this? 
parted /dev/ps3da
print (a few times)