Re: strange sparc64 -> i586 intermittent but reproducible NFS write

"David S. Miller" <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Jan 2003 06:01:24 +0000
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.ultralinux
Message-ID <marc-linux-ultrasparc-104304248432185@msgid-missing>
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 13:00, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> It sounds rather strange that this particular patch should introduce
> an EIO, but here it is (fresh from BitKeeper)

It is possible in the context of the change causing a miscompile.
Another possibility is just timing differences causing different
sequences of events to occur than before.