Bug#277136: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686: vmhgfs eof loops to beginning of file
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 01:35:25PM -0500, Greg Hazel wrote:
> Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686
> Version: 2.6.8-4
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks unrelated software
>
>
> Vmware's HGFS driver builds and installs into the kernel, but when doing
> simple operations like 'cp' from the HGFS filesystem to EXT3 (or
> anything, I assume) the file never stops copying, and the result is a
> huge file composed of the source file over and over.
> Another example is trying to run a perl script, where it never stops
> compiling the script and all the global variables throw warnings of
> redefinitions on lines that don't exist.
> This module worked fine prior to 2.6.8
I would strongly suspect a bug in HGFS (which is not part of
kernel-image, nor any other debian package) rather than EXT3.
Have you contacted VMWare about this to see if they have any ideas?
--
Horms
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