linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19-mm1

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612111532370.1665@twin.jikos.cz>
Date:	Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:33:36 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...os.cz>
To:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-mm1

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:

> > Am I the only one seeing something strange on ext3 with this kernel? 
> > For example /etc/resolv.conf gets corrupted during the dhclient run. 
> > It looks like this, after dhclient finishes:
> Do you have CONFIG_DEBUG_VM turned on? I think we miss clearning BH_New
> in some places, thus causing an error path to zero the block incorrectly
> if we hit an error that CONFIG_DEBUG_VM makes much more likely.

Yes, I have. Will retry without it and let you know if the problem goes 
away.

Seems quite dangerous, a few minutes with 2.6.19-mm1 corrupted quite a lot 
of files on my fs.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
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