Re: 2.4.0-prerelease problems (it corrupted my ext2 filesystem)

[Daniel Phillips]

Vedran Rodic wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:38:07PM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > Could you provide details of your configuration?
> 
> I put the complete kernel log of that session at http://quark.fsb.hr/~vrodic/kern.log
> 
> I scanned my swap device several times today with badblocks -w, and
> it didn't show any errors. I also did some RAM tests with memtest86,
> again with no errors.
> 
> If you need more details, just ask.

Are you still running 2.4.0-pre?  Can you reproduce the problem?  Does
the problem occur only with v4l?  Did you back up your files?

BTW, while spelunking the swap code I noticed this oddity:

  pte_t pte_mkdirty(pte_t pte) { (pte).pte_low |= _PAGE_DIRTY; return
pte; }

and similarly for 10 or so other functions - these functions just return
the passed pte, and reassign it to the pte orginally passed.  :-/ This
dates from version 1.2.13.

--
Daniel