Re: Recent mm changes leading to filesystem corruption?

From: Hugh Dickins
Date: Sat Dec 16 2006 - 14:08:16 EST


On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> [2006-12-16 18:20]:
> > Very disturbing. I'm not aware of any problem with them, and we
> > surely wouldn't have released 2.6.19 with any known-corrupting patches
> > in. There's some doubts about 2.6.19 itself in the links below: were
> > it not for those, I'd suspect a mismerge of the pieces into 2.6.18,
> > perhaps a hidden dependency on something else. I'll ponder a little,
> > but let's CC linux-mm in case someone there has an idea.
>
> Do you think http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/473710 might
> be related?

Sounds like it. Let's CC Jan Kara on your other thread,
he seems to have delved into it a little.

Hugh
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