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SubjectRe: Ooops: 2.2.10-ac8 + ncr53c8xx driver
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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