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Subject: [Bug 14354] Bad corruption with 2.6.32-rc1 and upwards
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:37:55 GMT
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--- Comment #170 from Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>  2009-11-03 13:37:44 ---
Eric, many thanks for finding the root cause for this!!   I think we still need
to apply Aneesh's proposed fix, but I suspect it's responsible for a very tiny
percentage of the reported problems, since that requires pdflush racing against
a truncate/unlink, which should be a very rare case.

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