Re: ext2fs Corruption Comments
On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 04:12:09PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote:
> So, your intuitions about this are right in part and also dead wrong. It
> is the case that some sort of synchronization race issue is surely at the
> heart of the Hurd's ext2fs corruption problems.
In case it got lost, and also to announce consistency, I find corrupted
files almost daily.
The corruption is always that a part of a file turned into \0.
Luckily, everything from gcc to dpkg complains about zeros in files, so
they are easy to spot.
Thanks,
Marcus
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