Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Sep 2000 02:22:39 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Still ext2-corruption in test8-pre5 (incl. OOPS) |
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On 6 Sep 2000, Henrik [ISO-8859-1] StЬrner wrote:
> In <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009051904210.1075-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes: > > >How about this patch? > > >NOTE NOTE NOTE! I'm on my way home now to be a family man, so I've not > >actually tested it AT ALL. You have been warned. > > "When in doubt, always mount a scratch monkey" > > I have a spare partition for this kind of tests, and I am happy to > report that a quick test this morning shows: > > * the innd data corruption that started this whole thread appears > to be solved;
That's really cool. It means that innd problem was really due to the we-don't-zero-out-block-tail bug. Wow. It was a looong way from 2.3.7...
> * I could not trigger any data corruption by a simple > "fire up mutt and delete some mails in the inbox" test. > > Definitely needs additional testing, but so far it looks good.
<knocking on the wood>
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