Re: [PANIC] ufs_dirbad: bad dir

From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:19:03 -0400
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 03:54:47PM -0700, Jon Dama wrote:
> Sure, but I've provoked this with marginal memory configurations.  The
> trouble is that if your memory configuration is marginal this symptom
> makes a good deal of sense.  i.e., you can model the problem as an usually
> high incidence of alpha particle collisions.
> 
> Also such marginal configurations are likely to be temperature sensitive.
> 
> ... of course taking this attitude might have the same bad effect as if
> when observation disagreed with the ptolemaic system,  Kepler and the
> rest had instead just said, "ah, there god goes again bumping the planets
> with his finger"  what a tragedy that would have been.

Again, there is no correlation between workload, frequency or which
machines experience the problems for me.  It just happens from time to
time.

Kris

Received on Mon Sep 26 2005 - 22:19:04 UTC

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