Andrey Borzenkov skrev:
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There was recently long discussion on lkml about mysterious file corruptions
during some activity (mentioned were - large multifiles torrents using
rtorrent, packages repository corruption using deb packages - I forgot the
And reported here too:
http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=27693
distribution). It turned out to be - apparently, very old - race between file
system and VM writeback code. The commit that fixes it is
http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7658cc289288b8ae7dd2c2224549a048431222b3
Now, there was at least one report since then that this commit also fixed BDB
corruption (NNTP Message-ID:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) Quoting this:
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With 2.6.20-rc2-git1, which contain this patch, I have no more Berkeley
DB corruption with Klibido.¹
I'm afraid a lot of software project switched to Sqlite,² from BDB,³
because the bug this patch fix (ie. http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/).
I've also thought, since years, it was an userland problem.
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I wonder if this accounts for constant reports about corrupted RPM DB. If yes,
it probably should be backported to at least 2007 ...
If IRC the oldest reported kernel triggering this bug is 2.6.5, so ...
+1
CC'ing kernel-discuss and Luiz
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Thomas
