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Subject: Re: [patch] 'virtual => physical page mappingcache',vcache-2.5.38-B8
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> > Interesting. So now I have a new question to resolve, which is
> > why doing O_DIRECT and truncate together corrupted my disk when I tried
> > it trying to break stuff
> 
> Interesting indeed.  Possibly invalidate_inode_pages2() accidentally
> left some dirty buffers detached from the mapping.  Hard to see how
> it could do that.
> 
> What kernel were you testing?

2.4.20pre5-ac with new IDE. So there are several other candidates 8)

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