On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:
Am I the only one seeing something strange on ext3 with this kernel? For example /etc/resolv.conf gets corrupted during the dhclient run. It looks like this, after dhclient finishes:
Do you have CONFIG_DEBUG_VM turned on? I think we miss clearning BH_New
in some places, thus causing an error path to zero the block incorrectly
if we hit an error that CONFIG_DEBUG_VM makes much more likely.
Yes, I have. Will retry without it and let you know if the problem goes away.
Seems quite dangerous, a few minutes with 2.6.19-mm1 corrupted quite a lot of files on my fs.