Re: Large-file corruption. ReiserFS? VFS?

Mike Fedyk
2003-09-12T20:54:41Z

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 10:40:01PM +0400, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 10:59:17AM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > > > However, just as the write completed, the beginning of the file became
> > > > corrupted. I considered a 4GB problem to be likely, and re-tested
> > > You are absolutely right.
> > > Ther is a reiserfs problem that I just found based on your description.
> > > The patch below should help. Please confirm that it works for you too.
> > > Thanks a lot for the report.
> > Yow, I guess large files on reiserfs in 2.6 isn't very common...
>
> Or may be nobody noticed the corruption.

Possible.

Does this affect 2.4 also? If not, then that will narrow the possible
number of people who could have hit this bug.

Luckily when I was using reiserfs, I used mostly small files.