Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

[Andrew Morton]

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:31:25 +0100
Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> * Marc Haber:
> 
> > After updating to 2.6.19, Debian's apt control file
> > /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin corrupts pretty frequently - like in under
> > six hours.
> 
> I've seen that with Debian's 2.6.18 kernels as well.  Perhaps it's
> related to this Debian bug?
> 
> <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401006>

ugh, that's pretty damning.  And rtorrent uses MAP_SHARED.
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