On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote:
: The behavior is probably outfall from buffer cache changes for 4.0,
: but it would have to be fixed a different way. The buffer cache
: changes were basically to not throw away dirty buffers with write errors
: because doing so could result in extremely serious filesystem
: corruption due to the system making modifications to meta data (the
: dirty buffer) and then having them magically, randomly 'revert' out
: from under it due to the write error. Result: catastrophic filesystem
: corruption.
Does it make a difference that this happens when you dd to the device,
without going through a filesystem layer? I don't ever use filesystems on
floppies, and have had this crash.
David Scheidt
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