From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: marcus@tuells.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Block device swamping disk cache
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 17:26:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040511172643.36df7c94.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040511201936.A19384@infradead.org>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 01:11:24PM -0600, marcus hall wrote:
> > I am having problems writing a filesystem image to a device file.
> >
> > I am running an arm version of the 2.5.59 kernel.
>
> I don't think anyone here still remembers stoneage-aera kernels.
>
> You're better off trying to reproduce it with 2.6.6 I guess.
no, sorry, it'll still happen. I haven't fixed the ramdisk driver yet.
The problem is that ->memory_backed means both "doesn't contribute
to dirty memory" and also "doesn't need writeback".
These concepts need to be split apart for the ramdisk driver. I'll do it
for 2.6.7, promise.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-12 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-11 19:11 marcus hall
2004-05-11 19:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-05-11 19:48 ` marcus hall
2004-05-12 0:26 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-05-12 13:33 ` marcus hall
2004-05-13 0:20 ` Andrew Morton
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2004-05-07 23:23 marcus hall
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