Subject: Re: duff pages in middle of file
To: Gavan Fantom <gavan@coolfactor.org>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 09/29/2003 16:23:35
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 12:10:28PM +0100, Gavan Fantom wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > > Can you remember when it started? Before that 17th September kernel, I was
> > > running 1.6X, probably 28th August and hadn't noticed anything, that isn't
> > > to say it hasn't happened!
> >
> > It's much older, my servers are all running 1.6.x. I had it only 2 times,
> > one time last winter and one this summer.
> 
> So once this problem has been tracked down, maybe this should be treated
> as a security issue, and an advisory be written.

I don't hold out much hope: how am I going to reproduce the problem?
I only noticed there was a problem because a database file became corrupt,
presumably long after it happened :/

Cheers,

Patrick