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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 03:52:49 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3
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On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:31:25 +0100
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:

> * Marc Haber:
> 
> > After updating to 2.6.19, Debian's apt control file
> > /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin corrupts pretty frequently - like in under
> > six hours.
> 
> I've seen that with Debian's 2.6.18 kernels as well.  Perhaps it's
> related to this Debian bug?
> 
> <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401006>

ugh, that's pretty damning.  And rtorrent uses MAP_SHARED.