On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>
> I added to block_write_full_page() the debugging code suggested by
> Alexander Viro:
>
> if (inode->i_dev == 0x305 && inode->i_ino == 48991) // Md
> printk("block_write_full_page: writing page %d, size %Ld\n",
> page->index, inode->i_size);
>
> and I have just been able to trigger the bug (two times):
Bug?
How do you think updates get written back to disk when innd has made
changes to its in-core file?
Right. With block_write_full_page.
> root@wonderland:vc/2:/var/lib/news$diff -u active active.ok
> --- active Sun Sep 17 16:09:01 2000
> +++ active.ok Sun Sep 17 21:03:16 2000
> @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
> control 0000004774 0000004775 y
> control.cancel 0000021917 0000021889 n
> junk 0000001777 0000001768 y
> -fido.ita.ridere 0000014632 0000014600 y
> +fido.ita.ridere 0000014634 0000014600 y
So? innd got two new articles.
The above is what you want. If the active file wouldn't get updated, you'd
never see any new articles ever again.
Doesn't look like a bug to me.
Linus
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