Re: 2.6.36 io bring the system to its knees

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Hi!

> > At least are there security issues?
> > Why do you say, that fs can be corrupted? Metadata is still
> > journalled, so only data might be corrupted, but FS should still be
> > consistent.
> 
> Data corruption is still a filesystem corruption.

As far as I understand, apps should not expect anything unless they
use fsync(). And fsync() still works in ext3...

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