linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean_one (was: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3)

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Message-Id: <1166716081.6901.1.camel@localhost>
Date:	Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:48:01 +0200
From:	Andrei Popa <andrei.popa@...eo.ro>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Martin Michlmayr <tbm@...ius.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>,
	Marc Haber <mh+linux-kernel@...schlus.de>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@...ibm.com>,
	gordonfarquharson@...il.com,
	"Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean_one (was: 2.6.19 file content
	corruption on ext3)

On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 16:24 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Btw, I'd really love to hear whether the patch I sent out actually _helps_ 
> at all, or whether we're just discussing something that in the end is just 
> a cleanup..
> 
> Martin, Peter, Andrei, pls give it a try. (Martin and Andrei may be 
> talking about different bugs, so _both_ of your experiences definitely 
> matter here).

with http://lkml.org/lkml/diff/2006/12/20/204/1
I have corruption: Hash check on download completion found bad chunks,
consider using "safe_sync".

> 
> 		Linus

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