Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Sep 2000 09:46:31 +0200 | From | Henrik Størner <> |
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On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 01:58:58PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
[ext2 truncate bug which caused the innd file corruption may also affect other filesystems]
> Anyway, the way to test if you have the bug is this simple program from > Al Viro who noticed the bug and has the fix - notice that you need to > have some file that is clean, non-zero and NOT in memory (ie an old > forgotten /tmp entry that can be happily trashed by the test-program):
OK, I checked this with 2.4.0-test5 on reiserfs, and it does show the bug in the manner you described. So I guess the reiserfs guys need to come up with a similar fix as the one that is being done for ext2.
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