Re: Mild filesystem corruption on ext4 (no journal)

[Alan Jenkins]

Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 18:43, Alan Jenkins<alan-jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   
> > If I remove the corrupted file and copy a "known good" copy into it's place,
> > then the corruption doesn't happen.  I've verified this a couple of times.
> >  The corruption only occurs if the file was created by "locale-gen".
> >     
>
> Does it use things like: fallocate()?
>
> Kay
>   

Not quite. Ted says it's already reported as

   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13292

It includes an strace log which implicates the use of both mmap() and 
write() on the same file.  Sounds scary :-).

Alan
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