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  • From: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: Jeremy Kolb <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>
  • Cc: SMGL Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Data Corrupting ext3 Bug In Latest Linux 2.4.20
  • Date: 02 Dec 2002 15:59:48 -0500

If the mount script doesn't synch before umount, it should. IIRC, there
was a similar problem in 2.4.12 (?) although it might have been with
reiserfs.

On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 14:13, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
> not sure if the mount scrips support it (haven't checked) but i think if
> you sync right before an unmount it should fix the problem.... believe i
> read that somewhere.
>
> Jeremy
>
> Wolfgang Scheicher wrote:
>
> >I could not yet reach http://kerneltrap.org/ but on Slashdot there is a
> >article:
> >http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/02/0128206
> >
> >An anonymous reader writes "Andrew Morton alerted readers of the Linux
> >Kernel
> >mailing list today that ext3 in the 2.4.20 kernel has a new bug that can
> >easily cause file data corruption at unmount time. The bug will only
> >affect
> >people using ext3 in "data=journal" mode, which fortunately is not the
> >default... Full details can be read on KernelTrap."
> >
> >If you find Details on this issue, or eaven a working link to a patch,
> >please
> >tell me!
> >
> >Worf
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