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

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Date:	Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:02:53 -0500
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	maximilian attems <maks@...rnwelten.at>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 10:23:14AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote:
 > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 11:21:21AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > >  > 
 > >  > 
 > >  > On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Petri Kaukasoina wrote:
 > >  > > > me up), and that seems to show the corruption going way way back (ie going 
 > >  > > > back to Linux-2.6.5 at least, according to one tester).
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > That was a Fedora kernel. Has anyone seen the corruption in vanilla 2.6.18
 > >  > > (or older)?
 > >  > 
 > >  > Well, that was a really _old_ fedora kernel. I guarantee you it didn't 
 > >  > have the page throttling patches in it, those were written this summer. So 
 > >  > it would either have to be Fedora carrying around another patch that just 
 > >  > happens to result in the same corruption for _years_, or it's the same 
 > >  > bug.
 > > 
 > > The only notable VM patch in Fedora kernels of that vintage that I recall
 > > was Ingo's 4g/4g thing.
 > 
 > no the fedora 2.6.18 kernel is affected.

I wasn't denying that, but Linus was talking about a 2.6.5 Fedora kernel.

 > it carries the same -mm patches that Debian backported
 > for LSB 3.1 compliance.

The only -mm stuff I recall being in the Fedora 2.6.18 is
the inode-diet stuff which ended up in 2.6.19, though the xmas
break has left my head somewhat empty so I may be forgetting something.
What patch in particular are you talking about?

		Dave

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