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Subject: Re: writepage fs corruption fixes
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Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
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> On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 02:16:00AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > I hope this time I'm done with it.
> 
> I'm not after more thinking it seems the below is not a bug.

Yes, I was scratching my head.  If that code was wrong, fsx-linux on
1k-blocksize ext2-nobh with memory pressure wouldn't last long.

> I'm lost since I can't find bugs anymore in this function but I need to
> find something.

What is the failure scenario?