Re: XFS in the main kernel

Wichert Akkerman
2002-04-22T23:44:22Z

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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