linux-kernel - Re: Recent mm changes leading to filesystem corruption?

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Date:	Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:07:05 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
To:	Martin Michlmayr <tbm@...ius.com>
cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	debian-kernel@...ts.debian.org
Subject: Re: Recent mm changes leading to filesystem corruption?

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com> [2006-12-16 18:20]:
> > Very disturbing.  I'm not aware of any problem with them, and we
> > surely wouldn't have released 2.6.19 with any known-corrupting patches
> > in.  There's some doubts about 2.6.19 itself in the links below: were
> > it not for those, I'd suspect a mismerge of the pieces into 2.6.18,
> > perhaps a hidden dependency on something else.  I'll ponder a little,
> > but let's CC linux-mm in case someone there has an idea.
> 
> Do you think http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/473710 might
> be related?

Sounds like it.  Let's CC Jan Kara on your other thread,
he seems to have delved into it a little.

Hugh
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