Re: filesystem bug?

From: Tsuchiya Yoshihiro
Date: Tue Dec 16 2003 - 19:13:56 EST


viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Umm... You do realize that if you have a shared writable mapping, the
buffer contents _can_ change during the IO? Legitimately. When dirty


Thanks for telling me about it.
But this case, the broken data can be in an inode block.
And also the test script does not share any files. It just create,write,read and remove independent files.


Yoshihiro Tsuchiya:
SCSI disk and IDE also. The problem we observed in our driver was that

We haven't tried it with IDE disk. Sorry.

Thank you,
Yoshi
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Yoshihiro Tsuchiya


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