Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 14:16:12 +0100
From: Andrea Gelmini <gelma@gelma.net>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VM: Fix nasty and subtle race in shared mmap'ed page writeback
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On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 05:03:43PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Anyway that leaves us with the question of why Andrea's database is getting
> corrupted. Hopefully he can give us a minimal test-case.

yep, I can give you a complete image of my machine, or a root access.
replicate the problem it's not complicated, but it requires some time
(you have to expire/update usenet/newsgroup headers).
I can talk with Bauno to see if he can produce an automated program that
replicate user behavior.

thanks a lot for your interest,
gelma
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