Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Sep 2000 04:24:16 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Flavours of deceased bovine |
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On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Keith Owens wrote:
> Just had an ext2 filesystem on SCSI that was corrupt. The first two > words of the group descriptor had been overwritten with 0xdeadbeef, > 0x00000000. The filesystem is fixed now but trying to track down the > problem is difficult, there are 50+ places in the kernel that use > 0xdeadbeef.
Fsck... Which version was it?
> I strongly suggest that people use different variants of dead beef to > make it easier to work out where any corruption is coming from. > Perhaps change the last 2-3 digits so magic values would be 0xdeadb000 > to 0xdeadbfff, assuming it does not affect any other code.
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