linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean_one (was: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3)

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Date:	Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:58:43 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Cc:	Andrei Popa <andrei.popa@...eo.ro>,
	Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Martin Michlmayr <tbm@...ius.com>,
	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>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean_one (was: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3)

On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 05:51:55PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 12:24:46PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 24 Dec 2006, Andrei Popa wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hash check on download completion found bad chunks, consider using
> > > "safe_sync".
> > 
> > Dang. Did you get any warning messages from the kernel?
> > 
> > 		Linus
> 
> BTW, rmap.c patch is broken - needs at least

... but that doesn't affect most of the architectures - only sparc64 and
some of powerpc.  So it's definitely not enough.
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