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Awhile back I encountered what I thought was hardware memory corruption that turned out to be a bug in the kernel [1]. Restic, a highly reliable backup program,
by cyounkins 5y ago
Awhile back I encountered what I thought was hardware memory corruption that turned out to be a bug in the kernel [1]. Restic, a highly reliable backup program, is written in Go, and Go programs were highly affected [2] by a memory corruption bug in the kernel [3].
[1] https://forum.restic.net/t/troubleshooting-unreproducible-consistency-errors/3372/16 https://forum.restic.net/t/troubleshooting-unreproducible-co...
[2] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/35777 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/35777
[3] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205663 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205663