On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 17:00, David Boutcher wrote: > > >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.
Well, that shouldn't fix it ;-) Which version of reiserfsprogs were you running before? Are the filesystems getting checked during boot at all (you would see reiserfsck messages during boot)? -chris
