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Message-ID: <yq1wruiki33.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:17:36 -0400
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@...ibm.com>,
linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Wrong DIF guard tag on ext2 write
>>>>> "Nick" == Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de> writes:
>> Yep, known bug. Page writeback locking is messed up for buffer_head
>> users. The extNfs folks volunteered to look into this a while back
>> but I don't think they have found the time yet.
Nick> What do you mean by messed up? Allowing modifications to the page
Nick> while it is under writeback? This is deliberate of course and not
Nick> limited to buffer_head users either.
Messed up in the sense that (at least last I looked) very few
buffer_head users were aware of the existence of the page writeback bit.
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
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