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Date:	Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:04:46 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-mm1

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:43:54 +0900
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:06:17 -0800
> Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> wrote:
> > > When I use ftp on 2.6.19-mm1, transfered file is always broken.
> > > like this:
> > > ==
> > > [kamezawa@...ares ~]$ file ./linux-2.6.19.tar.bz2 (got on 2.6.19-mm1)
> > > ./linux-2.6.19.tar.bz2: data
> > > (I confirmed original file was not broken.)
> > 
> > Yes, a couple of people have reported things like this.  Strange. 
> > test.kernel.org is showing mostly-green.  There's one fsx-linux failure (for
> > unclear reasons) on one of the x86_64 machines, all the rest are happy.
> > 
> > Which filesystem were you using?
> > 
> using ext3.
> > Can you investigate it a bit further please??  reboot, re-download, work
> > out how the data differs, etc?
> > 
> Hmm, this is summary of broken linux-2.6.19.tar.bz2 file (used od and diff) 

On 1k blocksize ext3,

	fsx-linux -r 512 -w 512 foo

fails immediately.  It works OK with blocksize==pagesize, which ia64
doesn't do.

It's the pagecache-deadlock-avoidance patchset.  I'll drop it again, and
shall nuke 2.6.19-mm1 somehow, thanks.
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