Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751219AbWLXMbS (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Dec 2006 07:31:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751168AbWLXMbS (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Dec 2006 07:31:18 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.25]:60595 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751219AbWLXMbR (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Dec 2006 07:31:17 -0500 Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 04:31:02 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: andrei.popa@i-neo.ro Cc: Linus Torvalds , Gordon Farquharson , Martin Michlmayr , Peter Zijlstra , Hugh Dickins , Nick Piggin , Arjan van de Ven , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean_one (was: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3) Message-Id: <20061224043102.d152e5b4.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1166962478.7442.0.camel@localhost> References: <97a0a9ac0612210117v6f8e7aefvcfb76de1db9120bb@mail.gmail.com> <97a0a9ac0612212020i6f03c3cem3094004511966e@mail.gmail.com> <20061222100004.GC10273@deprecation.cyrius.com> <20061222021714.6a83fcac.akpm@osdl.org> <1166790275.6983.4.camel@localhost> <20061222123249.GG13727@deprecation.cyrius.com> <20061222125920.GA16763@deprecation.cyrius.com> <1166793952.32117.29.camel@twins> <20061222192027.GJ4229@deprecation.cyrius.com> <97a0a9ac0612240010x33f4c51cj32d89cb5b08d4332@mail.gmail.com> <20061224005752.937493c8.akpm@osdl.org> <1166962478.7442.0.camel@localhost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1085 Lines: 34 On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 14:14:38 +0200 Andrei Popa wrote: > > - mount the fs with ext2 with the no-buffer-head option. That means either: > > > > grub.conf: rootfstype=ext2 rootflags=nobh > > /etc/fstab: ext2 nobh > > ierdnac ~ # mount > /dev/sda7 on / type ext2 (rw,noatime,nobh) > > I have corruption. > > > > > - mount the fs with ext3 data=writeback, nobh > > > > grub.conf: rootfstype=ext3 rootflags=nobh,data=writeback (I hope this works) > > /etc/fstab: ext2 data=writeback,nobh > > ierdnac ~ # mount > /dev/sda7 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,nobh) > > ierdnac ~ # dmesg|grep EXT3 > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with writeback data mode. > EXT3 FS on sda7, internal journal > > I don't have corruption. I tested twice. This is a surprising result. Can you pleas retest ext3 data=writeback,nobh? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/