Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753690AbWL2Jpu (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2006 04:45:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754143AbWL2Jpu (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2006 04:45:50 -0500 Received: from baikonur.stro.at ([213.239.196.228]:3725 "EHLO baikonur.stro.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753690AbWL2Jpt (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2006 04:45:49 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1350 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 04:45:49 EST Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:23:14 +0100 From: maximilian attems To: davej@redhat.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3 Message-ID: <20061229092314.GB24061@nancy> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061228193943.GC8940@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1272 Lines: 34 > 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 no the fedora 2.6.18 kernel is affected. it carries the same -mm patches that Debian backported for LSB 3.1 compliance. -- maks ps sorry for stripping cc, only downloaded that message raw. - 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/