linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

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Date:	Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:21:21 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
To:	Petri Kaukasoina <kaukasoina610meov7e@....fi>
cc:	Marc Haber <mh+linux-kernel@...schlus.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>, andrei.popa@...eo.ro,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>,
	Martin Michlmayr <tbm@...ius.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3



On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Petri Kaukasoina wrote:
> > me up), and that seems to show the corruption going way way back (ie going 
> > back to Linux-2.6.5 at least, according to one tester).
> 
> That was a Fedora kernel. Has anyone seen the corruption in vanilla 2.6.18
> (or older)?

Well, that was a really _old_ fedora kernel. I guarantee you it didn't 
have the page throttling patches in it, those were written this summer. So 
it would either have to be Fedora carrying around another patch that just 
happens to result in the same corruption for _years_, or it's the same 
bug.

I bet it's the same bug, and it's been around for ages.

		Linus
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