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SubjectRe: [fixpatch] 2.3.9-pre7, DANGER

On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> 2.3.9-pre7 can rather badly damage filesystems, because block_dev.c does
> buffer-cache access without the kernel lock held.

forgot to mention that the corruption most likely happens when an
(unclean) filesystem is fscked and update kicks in.

-- mingo


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