Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean_one (was: 2.6.19 file contentcorruption on ext3)

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sun Jan 07 2007 - 01:06:13 EST


On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 12:36:18 +1030
"Tom Lanyon" <tomlanyon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 12/27/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > What would also actually be interesting is whether somebody can reproduce
> > this on Reiserfs, for example. I _think_ all the reports I've seen are on
> > ext2 or ext3, and if this is somehow writeback-related, it could be some
> > bug that is just shared between the two by virtue of them still having a
> > lot of stuff in common.
> >
> > Linus
>
> I've been following this thread for a while now as I started
> experiencing file corruption in rtorrent when I upgraded to 2.6.19. I
> am using reiserfs.

reiserfs defaults to data=ordered, so it's quite possibly the same bug.

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