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Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:11:13 +0100 From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@...ius.com> To: Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@...il.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>, Andrei Popa <andrei.popa@...eo.ro>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>, Marc Haber <mh+linux-kernel@...schlus.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean_one (was: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3) * Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@...il.com> [2006-12-22 08:30]: > Based on the kernel gurus current knowledge of the problem, would > you expect the corruption to occur at the same point in a file, or > is it possible that the corruption could occur at different points > on successive Debian installer attempts on a UP, non PREEMPT system? Seems like it can occur anywhere. In fact, some people see apt problems because of filesystem corruption on the NSLU2 after they have already installe Debian. I've only seen this once myself and failed many times to find a reproducible situation. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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