On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 00:57 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:43:54 -0800 (PST) > Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I now _suspect_ that we're talking about something like > > > > - we started a writeout. The IO is still pending, and the page was > > marked clean and is now in the "writeback" phase. > > - a write happens to the page, and the page gets marked dirty again. > > Marking the page dirty also marks all the _buffers_ in the page dirty, > > but they were actually already dirty, because the IO hasn't completed > > yet. > > - the IO from the _previous_ write completes, and marks the buffers clean > > again. > > Some things for the testers to try, please: > > - mount the fs with ext2 with the no-buffer-head option. That means either: > > grub.conf: rootfstype=ext2 rootflags=nobh > /etc/fstab: ext2 nobh
ierdnac ~ # mount /dev/sda7 on / type ext2 (rw,noatime,nobh) I have corruption. > > - mount the fs with ext3 data=writeback, nobh > > grub.conf: rootfstype=ext3 rootflags=nobh,data=writeback (I hope this > works) > /etc/fstab: ext2 data=writeback,nobh ierdnac ~ # mount /dev/sda7 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,nobh) ierdnac ~ # dmesg|grep EXT3 EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with writeback data mode. EXT3 FS on sda7, internal journal I don't have corruption. I tested twice. > > if that still fails we can rule out buffer_head funnies. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
