Re: EXT3 filesystem corruption
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:29:33PM +0800, Steven Wilton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I added a response to the following bug report about 6 months ago, and
> was wondering if it can be resolved:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425534
>
>
> The bug is a documented race condition in ext3, with a patch that has
> been applied upstream, which I thought might be considered important
> enough to fix. I would imagine that it woud not cause problems for a
> lot of users, who would either not hit the race condition, or it would
> be corrected (and possibly ignored) when the machine runs a fsck on
> reboot.
Corruption fixes are definitely reasonable for stable updates, I'll
take a look at porting this. Thanks for tracking it down.
--
dann frazier
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