can corrupted files/data cause a kernel panic?

["Brent M. Clements" <bclem rice edu>]

I am fighting a wierd problem.

I have a professor who while doing a tar of an entire filesystem over ssh
from another machine(which has possible corrupted files) causes the
"backup server" to do a kernel panic while writing to the jfs filesystem.

I have tried reproducing the problem, by running iozone like crazy locally
while running a few tar over ssh's from my own machine and I can't seem to
reproduce the problem.

The professor does the tar over ssh again, and bam the machine does a
kernel panic while writing to the jfs drives.

Anyone hear of something like this?

This problem has me scratching my head.

Thanks,
Brent