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SubjectRe: ramdisk corruption problems - was: RE: pivot_root and initrd kern el panic woes


On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> The problem is that having buffers doesn't necessarily always mean that
> they are valid, nor that _all_ of them are valid.
>
> Also, if the ramdisk "readpage" code is wrong, then so is the
> "prepare_write" code. They share the same logic, which basically says
> that "if the page isn't up-to-date, then it is zero". Which is always
> true for normal read/write accesses, but as you found out it's not true
> when parts of the page have been accessed by filesystems through the
> buffers.

AFAICS, it's nastier than that. What's to stop buffer_heads to be
freed under memory pressure?

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