Re: Mild filesystem corruption on ext4 (no journal)

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Kay Sievers wrote:
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 18:43, Alan Jenkins<alan-jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If I remove the corrupted file and copy a "known good" copy into it's place,
then the corruption doesn't happen.  I've verified this a couple of times.
 The corruption only occurs if the file was created by "locale-gen".

Does it use things like: fallocate()?

Kay

Not quite. Ted says it's already reported as

   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13292

It includes an strace log which implicates the use of both mmap() and write() on the same file. Sounds scary :-).

Alan
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