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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 06:01:24 +0000
Subject: Re: strange sparc64 -> i586 intermittent but reproducible NFS write
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On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 13:00, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> It sounds rather strange that this particular patch should introduce
> an EIO, but here it is (fresh from BitKeeper)

It is possible in the context of the change causing a miscompile.
Another possibility is just timing differences causing different
sequences of events to occur than before.