Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:23:50 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [fixpatch] 2.3.9-pre7, DANGER |
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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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