From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161369AbWLPTGq (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:06:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161370AbWLPTGq (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:06:46 -0500 Received: from excu-mxob-1.symantec.com ([198.6.49.12]:55236 "EHLO excu-mxob-1.symantec.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161369AbWLPTGp (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:06:45 -0500 X-AuditID: c606310c-a0855bb0000072e7-51-45844614cdd1 Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:07:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Hugh Dickins X-X-Sender: hugh@blonde.wat.veritas.com To: Martin Michlmayr cc: Peter Zijlstra , Jan Kara , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Recent mm changes leading to filesystem corruption? In-Reply-To: <20061216184450.GA21129@deprecation.cyrius.com> Message-ID: References: <20061216155044.GA14681@deprecation.cyrius.com> <20061216184450.GA21129@deprecation.cyrius.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Dec 2006 19:06:44.0376 (UTC) FILETIME=[53AE9980:01C72145] X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * 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? Sounds like it. Let's CC Jan Kara on your other thread, he seems to have delved into it a little. Hugh