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Re: [BUG] 2.6.0-test4-mm1: NFS+XFS=data corruption

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 12:44, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> >  > Binary searching reveals that the offending patch is
> >  > O_SYNC-speedup-nolock-fix.patch
> >  > 
> > 
> >  I'm not sure if this would help here, but there is
> >  one bug which I just spotted which would affect writev from
> >  XFS. I wasn't passing the nr_segs down properly.
> 
> That fixes it, thanks.

Does rpm use readv/writev though? Or does the nfs server? not sure
how this change would affect the original problem report.

Steve

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