In article , Alexander Viro wrote: > > >On 13 Dec 2000, Henrik [ISO-8859-1] Størner wrote: > >> Just to add a "me too" on this. I didn't report when I saw it last week, >> because I was uncertain of exactly what might have caused it - I was >> booting several different kernels at the time, including one from a >> rescue disk (I was trying to salvage bits of a Win9x disk at the time - >> don't ask for details!) >> >> Alas, I lost the test program someone wrote to test for the truncate >> problem, and due to moving I will not be able to test anything until >> next Monday. But if needed, I can do some testing then. Something >> definitely went wrong with innd during the test12 pre-patches. > >It may be a side effect of removing partial_clear() in test12-final. No. If you read the code, partial_clear() has been a no-op for the longest time (the "start & ~PAGE_MASK" thing could never trigger, as "start" has been page-aligned for a long long while now. So it must be something else. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/