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  1. Karmic (9.10)
  2. Bug #453579
  3. Comment #49

Comment 49 for bug 453579

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John Johansen (jjohansen) wrote : Re: corruption of large files reported with linux 2.6.31-14.46 on ext4

The code path that is being patched in the ext4_write_inode() function is new to 2.6.32 and does not exist in Karmic.

It may be possible (though unlikely), that the read only non-journaled case calling ext4_force_commit is causing the corruption as in the 2.6.32 patch this case is short circuited returning without doing anything, however in 2.6.32 this code path is short circuiting on sync_dirty_buffers() not ext4_force_commit.

I have attached the patch reworked for 2.6.31 short circuiting the read only non-journaled case but I need to evaluate the code more.