Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:26:15 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption. |
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > What I'm saying above is that even without the wait_on_buffer ext2 can > screwup itself because the splice happens after the buffer are just all > uptodate so any "reader" (I mean any reader through ext2 not through > block_dev) will never try to do a bread on that blocks before they're > just zeroed and uptodate.
I assume you meant "..can _not_ screw up itself..", otherwise the rest of the sentence doesn't seem to make much sense.
Linus
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