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

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Message-Id: <20061217035249.a738e640.akpm@osdl.org>
Date:	Sun, 17 Dec 2006 03:52:49 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
Cc:	Marc Haber <mh+linux-kernel@...schlus.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:31:25 +0100
Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de> wrote:

> * Marc Haber:
> 
> > After updating to 2.6.19, Debian's apt control file
> > /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin corrupts pretty frequently - like in under
> > six hours.
> 
> I've seen that with Debian's 2.6.18 kernels as well.  Perhaps it's
> related to this Debian bug?
> 
> <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401006>

ugh, that's pretty damning.  And rtorrent uses MAP_SHARED.
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