On 28 Nov 00 at 15:02, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
>
> > Hi Al,
> > during weekend I was uncompressing XFree (Debian's 4.0.1-7) at home,
> > with 2.4.0-test11 running on Celeron 300A, 128MB RAM, SMP kernel on up.
> > It failed to compile lbxproxy/di/main.c. After some investigation I found
> > that they were overwritten by some source font data. fsck did not reveal
> > any croslinked clusters, nothing. Filesystem itself uses 4KB clusters.
> >
> > Today I found some spare time and investigated it further. There is
> > same data contents in:
> >
> > programs/lbxproxy/di/init.c 0-8720 fonts/bdf/75dpi/lubR24.bdf 0x5000-0x7210
> > lbxfuncs.c 0x0000-0x0EC0 lubR24.bdf 0x8000-0x8EC0
> > 0x0EC1-0x0FFF zero
> > 0x1000-0x5ABC lutBS08.bdf 0x0000-0x4ABC
> > 0x5ABD-0x5FFF zero
> > 0x6000-0x92C1 lutBS10.bdf 0x0000-0x32C1
> > lbxutil.c 0x0000-0x1E27 lutBS10.bdf 0x4000-0x5E27
> > 0x1E28-0x1FFF zero
> > 0x2000-0x3452 lutBS12.bdf 0x0000-0x1452
> > main.c 0-4614 lutBS12.bdf 0x2000-0x3206
> > options.c 0x0000-0x222E lutBS12.bdf 0x4000-0x622E
> > 0x222F-0x2FFF zero
> > 0x3000-0x4E30 lutBS14.bdf 0x0000-0x1E30
> > pm.c 0-11706 lutBS14.bdf 0x2000-0x4DA8
> > (blocks 722433-722459) (blocks 558899-~558927)
> >
> > Other files are intouch. As you can see, somewhat disk blocks
> > ended somewhere else than they should in addition to correct place.
> > I also found that data after end of file in di/*.c files are not
> > cleared, so maybe that ide driver did a mistake? But I was not able
> > to find how to convert either block address, or LBA adress, or CHS
> > address (drive uses 839/240/63, but I hope that it runs in LBA) to
> > get 558899 from 722433 or vice versa.
>
> Erm... Do you mean that you've got a 1-1 correspondence in data between these
> two ranges? Then it looks like something way below the fs level... Weird.
> Could you verify it with dd?
Yes, it is identical copy. But I do not think that hdd can write same
data into two places with one command...
vana:/# dd if=/dev/hdd1 bs=4096 count=27 skip=722433 | md5sum
27+0 records in
27+0 records out
613de4a7ea664ce34b2a9ec8203de0f4
vana:/# dd if=/dev/hdd1 bs=4096 count=27 skip=558899 | md5sum
27+0 records in
27+0 records out
613de4a7ea664ce34b2a9ec8203de0f4
vana:/#
I found match by searching of contents of init.c in other files.
It is just these 27 blocks; blocks before and after range differs.
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
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