Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2001 23:16:03 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption. |
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:26:15PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > > What I'm saying above is that even without the wait_on_buffer ext2 can > > screwup itself because the splice happens after the buffer are just all > > uptodate so any "reader" (I mean any reader through ext2 not through > > block_dev) will never try to do a bread on that blocks before they're > > just zeroed and uptodate. > > I assume you meant "..can _not_ screw up itself..", otherwise the rest of
yes, it was a typo sorry.
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