Re: data loss in 2.6.9-rc1-mm1

From: Gergely Tamas
Date: Fri Aug 27 2004 - 09:20:59 EST


> Hmm, 2.6.9-rc1-mm1 looks like not a release to trust your (page
> size multiple) data to! You should find the patch below fixes it
> (and, I hope, the issue the erroneous patches were trying to fix).
>
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx>

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=$((1024*1024)) count=10
10+0 records in
10+0 records out
10485760 bytes transferred in 0.028393 seconds (369307252 bytes/sec)

$ du -sb testfile
10485760 testfile

$ cat testfile > testfile.1

$ du -sb testfile.1
10485760 testfile.1

Seems to be working fine now, thanks.
Gergely
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