Re: Oops with tmpfs on both 2.4.22 & 2.6.0-test11

From: William Lee Irwin III (wli_at_holomorphy.com)
Date: 12/01/03

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    To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
    
    

    On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 05:21:26PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
    >> This is significantly different in nature from the 2.4 oops, since
    >> 2.4 hit NULL and this pointer is total garbage.
    >> Either it's a double bitflip or even worse is afoot.

    On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 08:58:24AM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote:
    > This oops is completely understood. I was going to write to you
    > yesterday evening, but then saw that Oleg Drokin already had
    > written. Didnt you see his mail?

    I'm sorry if my mail came out after Oleg's reply; I at least started
    writing it before his arrived on my system.

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