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FromDamien Wyart <>
SubjectRe: Important regression with XFS update for 2.6.24-rc6
DateWed, 19 Dec 2007 12:17:30 +0100
* David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> [071219 11:45]:
> Can someone pass me a brown paper bag, please?

My first impression on this bug was not so wrong, after all ;-)

> That also explains why we haven't seen it - it requires the user
> buffer to fill on the first entry of a backing buffer and so it is
> largely dependent on the pattern of name lengths, page size and
> filesystem block size aligning just right to trigger the problem.

I guess I was lucky to trigger it quite easily...

> Can you test this patch, Damien?

Works fine, all the bad symptoms have disappeared and strace output is
normal.

So you can add:

Tested-by: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>

-- 
Damien


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