Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 01 Dec 2002 23:41:24 +1100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: data corrupting bug in 2.4.20 ext3, data=journal |
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Andrew Morton wrote:
>In 2.4.20-pre5 an optimisation was made to the ext3 fsync function >which can very easily cause file data corruption at unmount time. This >was first reported by Nick Piggin on November 29th (one day after 2.4.20 was >released, and three months after the bug was merged. Unfortunate timing) > In fact it was reported on lkml on 18th July IIRC before 2.4.19 was released if that is any help to you. 2.4.19 and 2.4.20 are affected and I haven't tested previous releases. I was going to re-report it sometime, but Alan brought it to light just the other day.
Nick
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