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    SubjectRe: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3
    On Monday 18 December 2006 15:41, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    >On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    >> But at the same time, it's interesting that it still happens when we
    >> try to re-add the dirty bit. That would tell me that it's one of two
    >> cases:
    >
    >Forget that. There's a third case, which is much more likely:
    >
    > - Andrew's patch had a ", 1" where it _should_ have had a ", 0".
    >
    >This should be fairly easy to test: just change every single ", 1" case
    > in the patch to ", 0".
    >
    >The only case that _definitely_ would want ",1" is actually the case
    > that already calls page_mkclean() directly: clear_page_dirty_for_io().
    > So no other ", 1" is valid, and that one that needed it already avoided
    > even calling the "test_clear_page_dirty()" function, because it did it
    > all by hand.
    >
    What about the mm/rmap.c one liner, in or out?

    Thanks.

    >What happens for you in that case?
    >
    > Linus
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