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

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Date:	Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:24:16 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	andrei.popa@...eo.ro
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>,
	Marc Haber <mh+linux-kernel@...schlus.de>,
	Martin Michlmayr <tbm@...ius.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:05:03 +0200
Andrei Popa <andrei.popa@...eo.ro> wrote:

> > > > Also, it'd be useful if you could determine whether the bug appears with
> > > > the ext2 filesystem: do s/ext3/ext2/ in /etc/fstab, or boot with
> > > > rootfstype=ext2 if it's the root filesystem.
> > > 
>  I fave file corruption.

Wow.  I didn't expect that, because Mark Haber reported that ext3's data=writeback
fixed it.   Maybe he didn't run it for long enough?
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