From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161353AbWLPSo6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Dec 2006 13:44:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161356AbWLPSo5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Dec 2006 13:44:57 -0500 Received: from sorrow.cyrius.com ([65.19.161.204]:36874 "EHLO sorrow.cyrius.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161353AbWLPSo5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Dec 2006 13:44:57 -0500 Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:44:50 +0100 From: Martin Michlmayr To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Peter Zijlstra , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Recent mm changes leading to filesystem corruption? Message-ID: <20061216184450.GA21129@deprecation.cyrius.com> References: <20061216155044.GA14681@deprecation.cyrius.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Hugh Dickins [2006-12-16 18:20]: > Very disturbing. I'm not aware of any problem with them, and we > surely wouldn't have released 2.6.19 with any known-corrupting patches > in. There's some doubts about 2.6.19 itself in the links below: were > it not for those, I'd suspect a mismerge of the pieces into 2.6.18, > perhaps a hidden dependency on something else. I'll ponder a little, > but let's CC linux-mm in case someone there has an idea. Do you think http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/473710 might be related? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/