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SubjectRe: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3
Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>>I can't see how that's exactly a problem -- so long as the page does not
>>get reclaimed (it won't, because we have a ref on it) then all that matters
>>is that the page eventually gets marked dirty.
>
>
> But the point being that "try_to_free_buffers()" marks it clean
> AFTERWARDS.

For some reason I thought you were suggesting it is a problem on its own :P

Yes I agree there is a pagefault vs ttfb race.

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