access database

[Kendrick Vargas]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Kendrick Vargas wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Brandon Caudle wrote:
>
> > Has anyone heard of corruption of an access database on a ext2 (riserfs)
> > samba share?
>
> check to see what version of reiserfs you are running. There are patches
> out there which cover a NULL byte bug where null bytes are thrown into
> files. Unless you're running the latest kernel, you may be affected by
> this.
>
> I had a problem with sendmail where my user's email would be lost and
> replaced with lots of ^@'s. This went away (as far as I can tell) with an
> upgrade of my kernel.

Just thought that I'd add that this affected 2.4 kernels (I don't think
it affected the 2.2 kernels as they used an older version of reiserfs).
			-peace

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