A nasty file corruption bug

A nasty file corruption bug - fixed

Posted Jan 1, 2007 21:23 UTC (Mon) by bgoglin (subscriber, #7800)
In reply to: A nasty file corruption bug - fixed by bronson
Parent article: A nasty file corruption bug - fixed

Nobody noticed previously because the bug was hidden. But some changes in 2.6.19 (dirty page balancing, causing writeback to happen earlier) revealed the bug, making it occur much more frequently. Everybody using 2.6.19 should probably downgrade to an earlier kernel or use an upcoming 2.6.19.2 with the fix.