Re: fs corruption with pre-2.3.9-5 + this little patch

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Wed, 30 Jun 1999 10:38:58 -0700 (PDT)


On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> Well I attach here the alone patch that triggers fs corruption running
> bonnie and a memory hog at the same time on pre-2.3.9-5.

It's the WRITEA.

We broke write-ahead with the BH_Dirty handling - it can mark the buffer
clean without ever actually writing it out. I bet that's what you
triggered.

Nothing normally uses WRITEA, so it wasn't a problem before.

Linus

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/