Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jul 1999 07:40:01 -0500 | From | Ron Flory <> | Subject | Re: Corruption bug in CPU, kernel or tar |
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François Pinard wrote: > > Nate Eldredge <nate@cartsys.com> writes: > > > I'm chasing a bug which I found while doing a stress-test with `(tar x; tar > > d) &' times seventeen. It involves occasional corruption of an extracted > > file (every few days). [...] Is there anything in tar or the kernel > > that handles 32-byte chunks and might be able to cause such corruption? > > Alternatively, has anyone heard of similar problems with the K6-3?
I've seen something similar to this on my dual pentium-MMX-200 system under 2.2.9-ac??. It went away when I reverted back to 2.2.9 <no patch>. I could not make it happen on a UP system, and it was reported several weeks ago.
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