>On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 12:50, Dave Boutcher wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm chasing a wierd memory corruption problem on a ppc64 system. The >> first byte of a slab_t structure keeps getting stepped on (zeroed, >> actually.) This happens during a testcase that copies a large file >> called "junk" between file systems (a mix of ext2 and reiser) on a >> 2.4.13 kernel. I know that's REALLY REALLY old, but it's whats in >> SuSE's SLES-7 release that we have customers running... > >Any chance the test case involves renames? > >-chris
So I posted my problem with memory corruption a few weeks ago....and the problem turned out to be a REALLY old/moldy set of userland reiser tools. I don't know exactly why that caused memory corruption in the kernel, but updating the tools fixed everything right up. Dave B
