A nasty file corruption bug

A nasty file corruption bug - fixed

Posted Jan 5, 2007 20:28 UTC (Fri) by riel (subscriber, #3142)
In reply to: A nasty file corruption bug - fixed by rganesan
Parent article: A nasty file corruption bug - fixed

You are correct. Dirty bits are cleared when I/O is started, so the application can dirty the page again while the disk I/O happens, without the kernel forgetting that the page was dirtied again.