From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754940AbWL1TVm (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:21:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754941AbWL1TVm (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:21:42 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.25]:52971 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753680AbWL1TVl (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:21:41 -0500 Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:21:21 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Petri Kaukasoina cc: Marc Haber , Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , andrei.popa@i-neo.ro, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Peter Zijlstra , Hugh Dickins , Florian Weimer , Martin Michlmayr Subject: Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3 In-Reply-To: <20061228190541.GA23128@elektroni.phys.tut.fi> Message-ID: References: <1166362772.8593.2.camel@localhost> <20061217154026.219b294f.akpm@osdl.org> <45861E68.3060403@yahoo.com.au> <20061217214308.62b9021a.akpm@osdl.org> <20061219085149.GA20442@torres.l21.ma.zugschlus.de> <20061228180536.GB7385@torres.zugschlus.de> <20061228190541.GA23128@elektroni.phys.tut.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. I bet it's the same bug, and it's been around for ages. Linus