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From: Gergely Tamas <dice@mfa.kfki.hu>
To: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: data loss in 2.6.9-rc1-mm1
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:40:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040827114054.GA4467@mfa.kfki.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1093604706.5994.54.camel@imp.csi.cam.ac.uk>

Hi!

 > The difference is exactly 4096 bytes, i.e. 1 whole page.  Seems like an
 > off-by-one error somewhere in the file access or page cache code.
 > 
 > It would be interesting to know whether the read is truncated or whether
 > the write is truncated.  So could you tell us what is returned by:
 > 
 > cat testfile | wc -c

$ cat testfile | wc -c
10481664

 > Also your .config would probably be helpful.

[ http://dice.mfa.kfki.hu/dot.config-2.6.9-rc1-mm1.gz ]

Thanks,
Gergely

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-27 11:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-27 10:55 data loss in 2.6.9-rc1-mm1 Gergely Tamas
2004-08-27 11:05 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2004-08-27 11:40   ` Gergely Tamas [this message]
2004-08-27 12:35   ` Fabio Coatti
2004-08-27 11:17 ` Tim Schmielau
2004-08-27 11:43   ` Gergely Tamas
2004-08-27 11:37 ` Mikael Pettersson
2004-08-27 11:55 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-08-27 13:56   ` Hugh Dickins
2004-08-27 14:18     ` Gergely Tamas
2004-08-27 15:36       ` Fabio Coatti
2004-08-27 18:30     ` Ram Pai
2004-08-27 19:08       ` Hugh Dickins
2004-08-27 21:04         ` Ram Pai
2004-08-28  4:35           ` Nick Piggin
2004-08-28  5:01             ` Ram Pai
2004-08-28  5:42               ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-28  5:54               ` Nick Piggin
2004-08-28  9:44                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-08-28  9:45                   ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-28 10:18                     ` Nick Piggin
2004-08-28 10:47                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-08-28 14:52                 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-08-29  1:30                   ` Nick Piggin
2004-08-31  6:25                     ` Ram Pai
2004-08-31  6:39                       ` Andrew Morton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-28 12:05 Joachim Bremer

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