Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

[Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us>]

Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 10:59 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> > On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> > > here's a totally new tangent on this: it's possible that user code is 
> > > simply BUGGY. 
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> I'm sad to say this doesn't trigger :-(
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Hi all,

I ran it a number of times on 2.6.16-1.2115_FC4 and always got
./a.out | od -x
0000000 aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa
0000020 aaaa aaaa 5555 5555 5555 5555 5555 5555
0000040 5555 5555 5555 5555

but running it on 2.6.19-rc5 I always get zeros in the middle.

Steve

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