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Message-ID: <20061229224309.GA23445@gelma.net> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:43:09 +0100 From: Andrea Gelmini <gelma@...ma.net> To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: VM: Fix nasty and subtle race in shared mmap'ed page writeback On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 06:59:02PM +0000, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7658cc289288b8ae7dd2c2224549a048431222b3 > Commit: 7658cc289288b8ae7dd2c2224549a048431222b3 > Parent: 3bf8ba38f38d3647368e4edcf7d019f9f8d9184a > Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...mini.osdl.org> > AuthorDate: Fri Dec 29 10:00:58 2006 -0800 > Committer: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...mini.osdl.org> > CommitDate: Fri Dec 29 10:00:58 2006 -0800 > > VM: Fix nasty and subtle race in shared mmap'ed page writeback With 2.6.20-rc2-git1, which contain this patch, I have no more Berkeley DB corruption with Klibido.¹ I'm afraid a lot of software project switched to Sqlite,² from BDB,³ because the bug this patch fix (ie. http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/). I've also thought, since years, it was an userland problem. Ciao, gelma ------------------- ¹ http://klibido.sourceforge.net/ ² http://www.sqlite.org/ ³ http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/index.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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