Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753678AbWL1TkO (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:40:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753676AbWL1TkN (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:40:13 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:58663 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753678AbWL1TkL (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:40:11 -0500 Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:39:43 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Petri Kaukasoina , Marc Haber , Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , andrei.popa@i-neo.ro, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Peter Zijlstra , Hugh Dickins , Florian Weimer , Martin Michlmayr Subject: Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3 Message-ID: <20061228193943.GC8940@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Linus Torvalds , Petri Kaukasoina , Marc Haber , Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , andrei.popa@i-neo.ro, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Peter Zijlstra , Hugh Dickins , Florian Weimer , Martin Michlmayr References: <45861E68.3060403@yahoo.com.au> <20061217214308.62b9021a.akpm@osdl.org> <20061219085149.GA20442@torres.l21.ma.zugschlus.de> <20061228180536.GB7385@torres.zugschlus.de> <20061228190541.GA23128@elektroni.phys.tut.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1073 Lines: 28 On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 11:21:21AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Petri Kaukasoina wrote: > > > me up), and that seems to show the corruption going way way back (ie going > > > back to Linux-2.6.5 at least, according to one tester). > > > > That was a Fedora kernel. Has anyone seen the corruption in vanilla 2.6.18 > > (or older)? > > Well, that was a really _old_ fedora kernel. I guarantee you it didn't > have the page throttling patches in it, those were written this summer. So > it would either have to be Fedora carrying around another patch that just > happens to result in the same corruption for _years_, or it's the same > bug. The only notable VM patch in Fedora kernels of that vintage that I recall was Ingo's 4g/4g thing. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - 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/