re: Flavours of deceased bovine

2000-09-08 Thread Tommy Hallgren
>I strongly suggest that people use different variants of dead beef to >make it easier to work out where any corruption is coming from. >Perhaps change the last 2-3 digits so magic values would be 0xdeadb000 >to 0xdeadbfff, assuming it does not affect any other code. I think it's a nice idea.

Re: Flavours of deceased bovine

2000-09-08 Thread Malcolm Beattie
Keith Owens writes: > Just had an ext2 filesystem on SCSI that was corrupt. The first two > words of the group descriptor had been overwritten with 0xdeadbeef, > 0x. The filesystem is fixed now but trying to track down the > problem is difficult, there are 50+ places in the kernel that u

Re: Flavours of deceased bovine

2000-09-08 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 04:24:16 -0400 (EDT), Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Keith Owens wrote: >> Just had an ext2 filesystem on SCSI that was corrupt. The first two >> words of the group descriptor had been overwritten with 0xdeadbeef, >> 0x. The filesystem

Re: Flavours of deceased bovine

2000-09-08 Thread Alexander Viro
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Keith Owens wrote: > Just had an ext2 filesystem on SCSI that was corrupt. The first two > words of the group descriptor had been overwritten with 0xdeadbeef, > 0x. The filesystem is fixed now but trying to track down the > problem is difficult, there are 50+ place