Re: PATCH for Corrupted IO on all block devices

[Aaron Sethman]

I'd just like to add that the test program bombs on a reiserfs filesystem
as well.  So if their is some sort of issue, its not just related to ext2.

Regards,

Aaron

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, David J. Picard wrote:
> >
> > Basically, what is happening is the read requests are being pushed to
> > the front of the IO queue - before the preceding write for the same
> > sector.
>
> This is a bug in the USER, not in the code.
>
> The locking is NOT supposed to be done at the elevator level (or, indeed
> at ANY _io_ level), but must be done by upper layers.
>
> If upper layers do not do this locking, then THAT is the bug.
>
> What filesystem do you see the bug with?
>
> 		Linus
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