Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption.

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:26:15PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> >
> > What I'm saying above is that even without the wait_on_buffer ext2 can
> > screwup itself because the splice happens after the buffer are just all
> > uptodate so any "reader" (I mean any reader through ext2 not through
> > block_dev) will never try to do a bread on that blocks before they're
> > just zeroed and uptodate.
> 
> I assume you meant "..can _not_ screw up itself..", otherwise the rest of

yes, it was a typo sorry.

Andrea