Re: [fixpatch] 2.3.9-pre7, DANGER

Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:23:50 +0200 (CEST)


On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> 2.3.9-pre7 can rather badly damage filesystems, because block_dev.c does
> buffer-cache access without the kernel lock held.

forgot to mention that the corruption most likely happens when an
(unclean) filesystem is fscked and update kicks in.

-- mingo

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