Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jun 1999 10:38:58 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: fs corruption with pre-2.3.9-5 + this little patch |
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On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > Well I attach here the alone patch that triggers fs corruption running > bonnie and a memory hog at the same time on pre-2.3.9-5.
It's the WRITEA.
We broke write-ahead with the BH_Dirty handling - it can mark the buffer clean without ever actually writing it out. I bet that's what you triggered.
Nothing normally uses WRITEA, so it wasn't a problem before.
Linus
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