Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965089AbWL2Suz (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:50:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965091AbWL2Suz (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:50:55 -0500 Received: from baikonur.stro.at ([213.239.196.228]:1304 "EHLO baikonur.stro.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965089AbWL2Suy (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:50:54 -0500 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 19:52:15 +0100 From: maximilian attems To: Dave Jones , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3 Message-ID: <20061229185215.GS21469@baikonur.stro.at> References: <20061228193943.GC8940@redhat.com> <20061229092314.GB24061@nancy> <20061229150253.GB4516@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061229150253.GB4516@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1920 Lines: 45 On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 10:02:53AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 10:23:14AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 11:21:21AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > no the fedora 2.6.18 kernel is affected. > > I wasn't denying that, but Linus was talking about a 2.6.5 Fedora kernel. > > > it carries the same -mm patches that Debian backported > > for LSB 3.1 compliance. > > The only -mm stuff I recall being in the Fedora 2.6.18 is > the inode-diet stuff which ended up in 2.6.19, though the xmas > break has left my head somewhat empty so I may be forgetting something. > What patch in particular are you talking about? it's no longer visible in the FC6 cvs, due to rebase but it's name was linux-2.6-mm-tracking-dirty-pages.patch it is an earlier almagame of the merged patch serie: - mm: tracking shared dirty pages - mm: balance dirty pages - mm: optimize the new mprotect() code a bit - mm: small cleanup of install_page() - mm: fixup do_wp_page() - mm: msync() cleanup (closes: #394392) -- maks - 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/