2.4.0-test10 oops
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Quoted 4 lines · Jan Dvorak
Hi,
attached oops came from writing to vfat fs.
This problem was brought up a couple of times before as referenced here
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0010.3/0652.html
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0006.1/1754.html
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0003.3/0594.html
but I've never seen a solution as of yet.
In my own experiences, the bug didn't occur as frequently and reproducably as it did when I moved to the 2.4.0-test series yet it appears to be a long-standing issue.
I use Netscape Messenger to read my mail with the actual mail files stored on a vfat partition. The problem seems to occur when messages are copied to the vfat partition after being downloaded from the mail server.
As noted in one of the above articles, it appears to be a problem with the truncate function and Netscape uses this function to use it to increase the size of its .summary files. My kernel is OOPSing almost daily because of this problem.
I'm no kernel hacker so I'm hoping someone out there who is will take notice of this problem. I've got the output of my own ksymoops run from 2.4.0-test10 as well if anyone takes interest.
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