Precaution!

[Heiko Schaefer]

Hello Warner,

> If you booted a kernel from approximately April 15th through May 3th,
> there were a number of small, but critical, vm bugs.  This can cause
> file system corruption, and leave silent landmines for later.  It is
> recommended that if you did boot these kernels, you build a newer
> kernel, come up in single user and force an fsck on all filesystems.
> This is to prevent 'false' panics later that are a result of the
> corruption that might be dormant in them now.

could this bug have caused corruption of the content of files as well ?

i am having relatively rare cases of corrupted (32kb sized blocks of) data
which i copy from disk to disk - and am now wondering if this might be
related.

thanks,

Heiko