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Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 12:36:18 +0200 (CEST)
From: BERECZ Szabolcs <szabi@inf.elte.hu>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: page_launder() bug
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On Mon, 7 May 2001, David S. Miller wrote:

> My patch is crap and can cause corruptions, there is not argument
> about it now :-)
is it the only bug in the swap handling?
or why is this bug triggered so heavily if the swap is on a filesystem?
I had oopses when I used a swapfile on a partition, but that was really
rare. I even don't think it's becouse page_launder().
so what's so different if the swap sits on a filesystem?

Bye,
Szabi