Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 04 Sep 2000 22:41:31 -0400 | From | "Mohammad A. Haque" <> | Subject | Re: test8-pre4: innd fixed? |
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Is this file corruption 'thing' specific to innd or is it the same problem reported with corrupt mailboxes with pre2 and high disk activity?
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Could people who have seen the innd active list file corruption thing > please try out linux-2.4.0-test8-pre4? Despite some reports, it was _not_ > fixed in pre2, and pre3 was a internal-only test to fix the remaining > issue with Al Viro. > > pre4 finally passes all my truncate() tests, and the code looks good. The > only thing left to verify is whether innd really is happy, or whether the > inactive file corruption may have been due to something else altogether. > I'm personally fairly optimistic, but this needs to be verified so that > everybody can either breathe a sigh of relief or go looking for "the final > bug". > > Note that reiserfs is reported to have the same bug, and pre4 won't have > fixed that - only ext2. The infrastructure is all in place so that the > reiserfs fix is probably a one-liner, but for now I just want to hear from > people who have their news-spools and active file on an ext2 filesystem. > > Linus >
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