Re: [CHECKER] crash + fsck cause file systems to contain loops(msdos and vfat, 2.6.11)

[Andrew Morton]

Junfeng Yang <yjf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We are from the Stanford Checker team and are currently developing a file
>  system checker call FiSC.  FiSC mainly focuses on finding crash-recovery
>  errors.  We applied it to FiSC and found a serious error where crash then
>  recovery cause the file system to contain loops.
> 
>  To reproduce the warning, download and run our test cases at
> 
>  http://fisc.stanford.edu/bug7/crash.c (for msdos)
>  http://fisc.stanford.edu/bug10/crash.c (for vfat)
> 
>  you can also find the crashed disk images in the corresponding
>  directories.
> 
>  We are not sure if these are bugs or not.  Your
>  confirmations/clarifications on this are well appreciated.

Linus's current tree includes support for `mount -o sync' on the msdos and
vfat filesystems.

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