Re: 2.3.20 know ext2 corruption?

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 18:22:34 +0200 (CEST)


On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Greg Maxwell wrote:

>Are there any know failure modes causing ext2 corruption in 2.3.20?

There was a design bug in the page cache that may lead to fs corruption.
If fixed it in 2.3.21. If for some reason you want to stick with 2.3.20
this is the alone fix:

ftp://ftp.*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.3/2.3.20/unmap-underlying-metadata-1.gz

Andrea

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