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

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Message-ID: <20061217121938.GA21058@torres.l21.ma.zugschlus.de>
Date:	Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:19:38 +0100
From:	Marc Haber <mh+linux-kernel@...schlus.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	andrei.popa@...eo.ro,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 04:06:20AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I'd be really surprised if this was all due to a race though.  Is everyone
> who has observed this problem running SMP and/or premptible kernels?

Linux torres 2.6.19.1-zgsrv #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Dec 13 01:31:27 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

So, it's a "yes" to both counts, and I'll build a kernel without SMP
and without preemption asap.

Greetings
Marc

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