> > Interesting. So now I have a new question to resolve, which is
> > why doing O_DIRECT and truncate together corrupted my disk when I tried
> > it trying to break stuff
>
> Interesting indeed. Possibly invalidate_inode_pages2() accidentally
> left some dirty buffers detached from the mapping. Hard to see how
> it could do that.
>
> What kernel were you testing?
2.4.20pre5-ac with new IDE. So there are several other candidates 8)
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