Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932414AbXAGGFw (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jan 2007 01:05:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932415AbXAGGFw (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jan 2007 01:05:52 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:35589 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932414AbXAGGFv (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jan 2007 01:05:51 -0500 Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 22:05:26 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: "Tom Lanyon" Cc: "Linus Torvalds" , "Nick Piggin" , "Andrei Popa" , "Peter Zijlstra" , "David S. Miller" , "Gordon Farquharson" , "Martin Michlmayr" , "Hugh Dickins" , "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: <20070106220526.4d15d39f.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <97a0a9ac0612210117v6f8e7aefvcfb76de1db9120bb@mail.gmail.com> <20061224005752.937493c8.akpm@osdl.org> <1166962478.7442.0.camel@localhost> <20061224043102.d152e5b4.akpm@osdl.org> <1166978752.7022.1.camel@localhost> <4590F9E5.4060300@yahoo.com.au> 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: 987 Lines: 23 On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 12:36:18 +1030 "Tom Lanyon" wrote: > On 12/27/06, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > What would also actually be interesting is whether somebody can reproduce > > this on Reiserfs, for example. I _think_ all the reports I've seen are on > > ext2 or ext3, and if this is somehow writeback-related, it could be some > > bug that is just shared between the two by virtue of them still having a > > lot of stuff in common. > > > > Linus > > I've been following this thread for a while now as I started > experiencing file corruption in rtorrent when I upgraded to 2.6.19. I > am using reiserfs. reiserfs defaults to data=ordered, so it's quite possibly the same bug. - 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/