From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 7 May 2002 00:28:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 7 May 2002 00:28:22 -0400 Received: from melancholia.rimspace.net ([210.23.138.19]:24332 "EHLO melancholia.danann.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 7 May 2002 00:28:21 -0400 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Linux-2.5.14.. In-Reply-To: From: Daniel Pittman Organization: Not today, thank you, Mother. Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 14:28:14 +1000 Message-ID: <87lmawintt.fsf@enki.rimspace.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.5 (bamboo, i686-pc-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 6 May 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 6 May 2002, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> >> From the look of the changelog at least a few of the file corruption >> bugs with ext3, 2k block file systems and 2.5 have been fixed. Should >> I expect this release to address the problems I was seeing? > > "Expect" is too strong a word. I'd say "hope" - a number of truncate > bugs were fixed, but whether that was what bit you, nobody knows. Well, hope seems justified... > I suspect the real answer is that we'd love for you to test things > out, but that if it ends up being too painful to recover if the > problems happen again, you probably shouldn't.. I did, and I failed to reproduce it working on a scratch disk. This was a period of playing and I /hope/ that it's conclusive. I couldn't get .12 to reliably fail, though, which is less inspiring. I should be able to find some time in the next day or so to test it a bit more on the scratch disk and then, if that works, I will update my backups. :) Still, it seems good so far. Daniel -- Television is the ideal propaganda medium, a mendacious monster, not primarily out of malice but from its amoral nature. -- Paul Johnson