From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Apparent serious progressive ext4 data corruption bug in 3.6.3
 (and other stable branches?)
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 22:42:24 -0400
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On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 09:35:58PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Yeah, seems that way.
> 
> Then your simpler version is probably the way to go.

If you have a chance, could you do me a favor and test my -v3 version
of the patch?  It should work just as well as yours, but I'm getting
paranoid in my old age, and you seem to have a reliable way of testing
for this failure.  I still need to figure out why my kvm based
approach isn't showing the problem....

Thanks,

-- Ted