linux-kernel - Re: Apparent serious progressive ext4 data corruption bug in 3.6.3 (and other stable branches?)

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Message-ID: <87hapkks86.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix>
Date:	Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:46:33 +0100
From:	Nix <nix@...eri.org.uk>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@...app.com>,
	Peng Tao <bergwolf@...il.com>, Trond.Myklebust@...app.com,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>
Subject: Re: Apparent serious progressive ext4 data corruption bug in 3.6.3 (and other stable branches?)

On 24 Oct 2012, Hugh Dickins verbalised:

> On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>> Journal flushes outside of an unmount does
>> happen as part of online resizing, the FIBMAP ioctl, or when the file
>> system is frozen.  But it didn't sound like Toralf or Nix was using
>> any of those features.  (Toralf, Nix, please correct me if my
>> assumptions here is wrong).
>
> I believe it also happens at swapon of a swapfile on the filesystem.

I'm not using swapfiles, only swap partitions (on separate LVM LVs).
So that's not it either.

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