From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754867AbWL2PDD (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:03:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754872AbWL2PDD (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:03:03 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:51946 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754867AbWL2PDB (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:03:01 -0500 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:02:53 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: maximilian attems Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3 Message-ID: <20061229150253.GB4516@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , maximilian attems , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20061228193943.GC8940@redhat.com> <20061229092314.GB24061@nancy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061229092314.GB24061@nancy> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk