Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Oct 2002 19:38:11 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: VM BUG, set_page_dirty() buggy? |
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Jens Axboe wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm seeing what looks like a bug in set_page_dirty() in 2.5.44 (and > 2.5.44-mm5), pages are being dumped.
It's not set_page_dirty() or direct IO. There's a fairly long-standing bug in the writeback code which can cause the kernel to never write out ext2 indirect blocks. Complete bastard of a thing it was, too.
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