I promised I'd have something to say about skiplists soon! (hi Rudy - hope you had a good time off, leaving me here to figure this out _all_by_myself_ ;) ) There's a bug in the linux kernel for amd64 builds only that breaks some skiplist files. Specifically, checkpointing a seen file with a long (greater than page size) list of seen data will cause corruption where it crosses the page break. The last 16-24 bytes will of the page will be NULLed out. You can read more about it in all its gory detail here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/17/9 Thanks Linus for the prompt (at least partial) fix. If you are running one of those kernels now, I recommend you either change the kernel version, or apply the patch Linus posted. I was going to suggest a little "magic" patch, but I've been unable to actually make it work in testing, so I won't do it! Bron. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
