Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 12 Dec 1996 22:57:04 GMT | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: Corrupted inode list? |
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Hi,
In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.961209124713.20928A-100000@dot.superaje.com> Benjamin C R LaHaise <blah@dot.superaje.com> writes:
> On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Andrew E. Mileski wrote:
>> After exhaustive testing, and the loss of several hundred MB of data, >> I can assure everyone that the FAT race fix in v2.1.14 doesn't work :-( >> (this also affects VFAT of course) >> >> To review for anxious readers, three different solutions have been >> posted on linux-kernel for this problem: >> #1 by Benjamin LaHaise - see linux-kernel-digest #635 >> #2 by Stephen Tweedie - see linux-kernel-digest #636 >> #3 by Stephen Tweedie - see linux-kernel-digest #638 >> Solution #2 seems to be incorporated into v2.1.14 now. >> >> I'll try #3 now and report back after wringing it out a while.
> Hmmm... I haven't seen #3, but how about the patch below (untested, > against 2.1.14). I investigated the msdos/vfat code a bit more, and > depend/linked only seem to be used when renaming across directories > (explains why most tests don't show the problem).
> ... [patch deleted]
Yup, this appears to be a reasonable approach. If you could give it a testing and it seems to work OK, I'll forward the patch to Linus.
Cheers, Stephen.
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