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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: data from kernel.bkbits.net
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 23:34:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FC1B48B.8090403@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031124051910.GA2766@work.bitmover.com>

Larry McVoy wrote:
> I've been trying to get all the data off the drives on the machine which
> was broken into.  I have a feeling that whoever this was was hiding stuff
> in the file system because both drives will not fsck clean nor will they
> completely read.
> 
> I've managed to get most of the data off but not all.  Given that I've put
> about 3 days into this I'm pretty much done.  If someone else wants to look
> at the drives I can make them available, let me know.  But just reading the
> main drive makes the kernel (Fedora 1) kill the tar process as below (it
> also managed to wack the system enough that it overwrote the NVRAM with
> garbage).  It hasn't been a fun weekend.
> 

Looks more like a 3Ware driver bug to me.  Hard to say for sure, though.

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-24  7:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-24  5:19 data from kernel.bkbits.net Larry McVoy
2003-11-24  7:34 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-11-24 14:57   ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-24 15:43   ` Ricky Beam
2003-11-24 15:50     ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-24 19:17       ` Ricky Beam
2003-11-24 19:24         ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-24 19:35           ` Jamie Lokier
2003-11-24 20:05           ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-11-24 20:33             ` Theodore Ts'o
2003-11-24 21:34               ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-11-24 22:24                 ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-24 22:38                   ` Jamie Lokier
2003-11-25  0:30                   ` Theodore Ts'o
2003-11-24 20:09           ` Ricky Beam
2003-11-24  9:48 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-11-25 15:00 ` Ben Collins
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-24 19:14 Adam Radford

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