On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 01:11  AM, Patrick Welche wrote:

> Can anyone think of a reason for exactly 0x400 contiguous bytes 
> (0x1000-0x13ff)
> of a 1Gb file (1024^3 bytes) (postgresql database) to be replaced by a 
> bit
> of my /var/mail/prlw1 (often mmapped by mutt)? It (i386) ran a 17 Sept 
> kernel
> for a day, and 18 Sept ever since. I think the corruption happened on 
> the
> 17th. The disk is

Hm..  Less than a page size.  But 2 sectors worth.

Just making an observation.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>