Re: Apparent serious progressive ext4 data corruption bug in 3.6.3(and other stable branches?)

[Hugh Dickins]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Journal flushes outside of an unmount does
> happen as part of online resizing, the FIBMAP ioctl, or when the file
> system is frozen.  But it didn't sound like Toralf or Nix was using
> any of those features.  (Toralf, Nix, please correct me if my
> assumptions here is wrong).

I believe it also happens at swapon of a swapfile on the filesystem.

Hugh
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