From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: XFS in the main kernel
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 01:44:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020422234419.GQ2470@wiggy.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aa1f9o$519$1@picard.cistron.nl> <6047.1019518162@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au>
Previously Keith Owens wrote:
> dpkg uses mmap?
To read all its data files, just.
> There was a bug in XFS and mmapped files where incorrect blocks were
> flushed to disk under high load, but that was fixed around January 30.
That would produce corrupt files which does not seem to be the case.
If memory serves me corrrectly one of the problems was that rename(2)
returned an error in rare cases that should not be possible (might have
been ENOENT even though both we have verified in advance that can't be
true).
Wichert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-22 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-22 15:10 XFS in the main kernel Dan Yocum
2002-04-21 15:29 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-04-22 16:55 ` Wichert Akkerman
2002-04-22 22:19 ` Matthias Andree
2002-04-22 22:47 ` Chris Mason
2002-04-22 23:29 ` Keith Owens
2002-04-22 23:44 ` Wichert Akkerman [this message]
2002-04-23 0:43 ` Luigi Genoni
[not found] <20020422234419.GQ2470@dstl.gov.uk>
2002-04-23 8:31 ` Tony Gale
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2002-04-23 13:36 Martin Knoblauch
2002-04-23 14:30 ` Stephen Lord
2002-04-23 15:47 ` Martin Knoblauch
2002-04-23 21:37 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-04-23 9:23 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-04-24 9:32 ` Luigi Genoni
2002-04-23 15:47 ` Peter Wächtler
2002-04-23 15:55 ` Martin Knoblauch
2002-04-23 21:43 ` Luigi Genoni
2002-04-23 9:32 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-04-24 7:13 ` Martin Knoblauch
2002-04-24 9:02 ` Luigi Genoni
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