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

roel@grobbebol.xs4all.nl
Wed, 30 Jun 1999 19:53:44 +0000

On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 10:38:58AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> 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.

I assume still nobody has a clue why on the 2.2.xx series FS corruption
occurs ?

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