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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:41:47 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
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On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:37:19 -0700 "Larry Scheer"
<larry.scheer@onstor.com> wrote:

> After the meeting I tought about a couple of things and have some
> "what ifs" that are worth looking into.
> 
>  
> 
> 1.	pm down messages
> 
> 	a.	This sounds like the real problem is the
> configuration did not get saved. What if the flash partition (/etc?)
> was not writable?
> 
> 2.	crontab corruption
> 
> 	a.	This problem was experienced before and Dan Stein
> fixed it in 1.3.0 what if his fixes were removed in the code or some
> new code was created and didn't include the locks he put in place?

	Per a discussion with Tim:

	b. What if this corruption is and/or caused by using mmap to
	manipulate the crontab file.  Have we checked that code for use
	of the deadly mmap?

