Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Thu, 8 Jul 1999 23:12:57 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: Ooops: 2.2.10-ac8 + ncr53c8xx driver |
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Hi,
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999 08:45:42 +0200 (MEST), R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff) said:
>> I've talked to Stephen about playing with page poisoning when we >> free page cache pages. It would clobber performance but in the >> presence of strange errors might be instructive as a debugging aid
> Subtle errors will suddenly turn into filesytem whackers. Hmm.
Subtle errors are already destroying filesystems. It is _much_ better to catch them early. We've found 4 or 5 problems in 2.2.10 using the slab poisoning stuff.
--Stephen
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