Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:30:08 +1100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3 |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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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