Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:10:37 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] fix for the `access beyond end of device' bug of 2.3.[789] |
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On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Mike Thomi wrote:
> But tell me, why it hasn't crashed my SMP box in conjunction with that > bug? I played around with tons of gigas without any probs on the > SMP-Kernel but with a uniprocessor box (same .config) doing some single > tarballs "beyond device..." infos filled up the logs.
are you using 4k block filesystems? On 4k block filesystems you need lots of diskspace (bigger files) before we reach triple-indirection blocks ....
-- mingo
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