linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.39-rc1 data corruption with rtorrent

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Date:	Sun, 3 Apr 2011 03:08:14 +0300
From:	Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel@...il.com>
To:	Jindrich Makovicka <makovick@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.39-rc1 data corruption with rtorrent

On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Jindrich Makovicka <makovick@...il.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hit an rtorrent data corruption issue again. But this time, rtorrent
> seems to write data that were mmapped by other processes (in the
> downloaded files, I found my data from Chromium and later the data
> produced by the testing utility by Linus from
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/27/180). Unfortunately, I was so far
> unable to reproduce the issue just with the testing utility.
>
> I reverted to stable 2.6.38.2 for now as I don't feel like broadcasting
> my private data via bittorrent.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Jindrich Makovicka
>

Do you have an r8169 also ?
I have data coruption in my torent files. But I didn't think to blame
the kernel for that.
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