Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:28:12 +0200
From: Sami Farin <7atbggg02@sneakemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH - 2.6.10] generic_file_buffered_write handle partial DIO writes with multiple iovecs
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 08:55:40AM -0800, Daniel McNeil wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 18:31, Sami Farin wrote:
...
> > I have Linux 2.6.10-ac9 + bio clone memory corruption -patch,
> > and dio_bug does not give errors (without your patch).
> 
> I should have mentioned that my testing was on ext3 with 4k
> block size.   The bio clone patch might affect this by merging
> the i/o into a single iovec.  Here's an updated test program
> that uses 2 different buffers allocated separately that might
> prevent the merging.  See if this works on your system.

I have reiserfs... and this version does not give errors, either. 

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