Re: Corruption bug in CPU, kernel or tar

Ron Flory (rjflory@feist.com)
Wed, 14 Jul 1999 07:40:01 -0500

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.

bye-

ron

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