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

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Date:	Sat, 6 Jan 2007 22:05:26 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	"Tom Lanyon" <tomlanyon@...il.com>
Cc:	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...l.org>,
	"Nick Piggin" <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	"Andrei Popa" <andrei.popa@...eo.ro>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Gordon Farquharson" <gordonfarquharson@...il.com>,
	"Martin Michlmayr" <tbm@...ius.com>,
	"Hugh Dickins" <hugh@...itas.com>,
	"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 Sun, 7 Jan 2007 12:36:18 +1030
"Tom Lanyon" <tomlanyon@...il.com> wrote:

> On 12/27/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org> wrote:
> > What would also actually be interesting is whether somebody can reproduce
> > this on Reiserfs, for example. I _think_ all the reports I've seen are on
> > ext2 or ext3, and if this is somehow writeback-related, it could be some
> > bug that is just shared between the two by virtue of them still having a
> > lot of stuff in common.
> >
> >                         Linus
> 
> I've been following this thread for a while now as I started
> experiencing file corruption in rtorrent when I upgraded to 2.6.19. I
> am using reiserfs.

reiserfs defaults to data=ordered, so it's quite possibly the same bug.

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