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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: ramdisk corruption problems - was: RE: pivot_root and initrd
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On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:

> As you pointed out offline, the -ac kernels fixed the problem using
> *both* approaches.  Here's a 2.4.18-pre1 version.  generic_file_write()
> is getting rather icky.
> 
> Please let me know if this looks like the way to proceed, and I'll
> find a way to actually test the thing.
 
Erm...  I don't think so.  Come on - vmtruncate() is obvious candidate
for out-of-line.  Please, look how it was done in 2.4.9-ac*.  BTW,
fs/buffer.c part of patch looks mangled.

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