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SubjectRe: [patch] fix for the `access beyond end of device' bug of 2.3.[789]
Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Mike Thomi wrote:
>
> > But tell me, why it hasn't crashed my SMP box in conjunction with that
> > bug? I played around with tons of gigas without any probs on the
> > SMP-Kernel but with a uniprocessor box (same .config) doing some single
> > tarballs "beyond device..." infos filled up the logs.
>
> are you using 4k block filesystems? On 4k block filesystems you need lots
> of diskspace (bigger files) before we reach triple-indirection blocks ....
>
> -- mingo

on both boxes 4k blocks
fine: SMP box (extradowngrade to 128MB) Adaptec AIC-7880U (uw hds)
(checked with tarballs ~500MB-1GB, mysql db with >500mb)

probs: UP box (128MB) Adaptec AHA-2940U2 (u2w hds)
(tarballs 20MB-250Mb)

mike

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