Re: ramdisk corruption problems - was: RE: pivot_root and initrd

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Sun, 30 Dec 2001 02:29:03 -0500 (EST)


On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:

> As you pointed out offline, the -ac kernels fixed the problem using
> *both* approaches. Here's a 2.4.18-pre1 version. generic_file_write()
> is getting rather icky.
>
> Please let me know if this looks like the way to proceed, and I'll
> find a way to actually test the thing.

Erm... I don't think so. Come on - vmtruncate() is obvious candidate
for out-of-line. Please, look how it was done in 2.4.9-ac*. BTW,
fs/buffer.c part of patch looks mangled.

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