linux-kernel - Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-03-18-02-44.tar.gz uploaded

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Date:	Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:17:09 +1100
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-03-18-02-44.tar.gz uploaded

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:47:53 +1100 Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Andrew Morton wrote:
>>

>>Hang on a sec... I'll try fixing the thing before you next make a
>>release.
>>
> 
> 
> Too late.  hot-fixes/ awaits thee.

Awww... well thanks very much Michal for reporting the bug, I reproduced
it easily and it turns out to be a typo.

In my testing I never had a lot of writeout going on, so most of the pages
will have been truncated in the first loop...

-- 
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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