Re: mke2fs (and mkreiserfs) core dumps

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 08:03:17PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Mar 17, 2002  10:37 -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 12:26:53AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > > Yes, I have always considered this a kernel bug (introduced in 2.4.10),
> > > but my (admittedly feeble) attempts to get it fixed were not accepted.
> > > At one point I thought a fix went into 2.4.18-pre[12] or so, but I
> > > guess not.  I haven't tried in a while, so maybe I should make another
> > > attempt.
> > > 
> > 
> > Was that part of the 2.4.10-pre11 -aa VM merge, or was it from another
> > seperate patch?
> 
> Well, at the same time as Linus merged -aa VM, he also merged
> blockdev-in-pagecache from -aa.  This caused this problem, among others.

Ahh yes, I remember now.

> With blockdev-in-pagecache, the kernel thinks block device access is the
> same as reading a file, so it imposes file limits.  It also caused the

Right.

> problem that the block device (pagecache) and the filesystem (buffer
> cache) were not coherent, causing e2fsck, tune2fs, etc to not work.
> 

This was fixed in 2.4.12 I believe.

I also heard one offhand remark that similar problems have crept back
into the kernel recently.  Is that true?