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SubjectRe: ReiserFS issue ..was Re: [pre5/6] bad mmap behavior


On 7/27/00, 8:53:41 PM, <fjolliton@free.fr> wrote regarding ReiserFS issue
..was Re: [pre5/6] bad mmap behavior:

> Hi Linus,

> torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) writes:

> > In article <200007272026.WAA06649@mau.local.network>,
> > <fjolliton@free.fr> wrote:
> > >It seem that mmap had a bad behavior since some pre test5 patch.
> > >The above program show this.
> > >On 2.2.17-pre13, output is "1 2", and on test5-pre5/6, output is "1 1".

> > What architecture? It gives "1 2" on the machines I can test..

> $ uname -a
> Linux mau.local.network 2.4.0-test5 #2 Wed Jul 26 21:44:36 CEST 2000 \
> i586 unknown
> (with pre6 patch)

> But apparently the problem occur *only* on a ReiserFS partition.

Confirmed. This is a bug in our tail conversion code, thanks for
catching it. The bug is that tail data on disk is being read in over
newer data in memory, fix is in the works (along with a few others for
3.6.11). Until then, please mount with -o notail.

-chris


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