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From: Phil Auld <pauld@egenera.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Stale super_blocks in 2.2
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 17:23:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A89B3FD.62313E6C@egenera.com> (raw)

Hello,

	It appears that the umount path in the 2.2 series kernels
does not do anything to invalidate the buffers associated with the
unmounted device. We then rely on disk change detection on a 
subsequent mount to prevent us from seeing the old super_block.

Since deja was gobbled by google it's hard to do a good search of 
this list. Can anyone take the time to help me understand the reason
for this choice? This seems to me to be backwards. When a device is 
unmounted there should be no cached information.

Thanks for the help,


Phil


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Philip R. Auld, Ph.D.                  technical staff
Egenera Corp.                        pauld@egenera.com
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             reply	other threads:[~2001-02-13 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-13 22:23 Phil Auld [this message]
2001-02-13 22:28 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-13 22:34   ` Phil Auld
2001-02-13 22:38     ` Alan Cox
2001-02-14 13:27       ` Phil Auld
2001-02-14 13:32         ` Alan Cox
2001-02-13 22:55 ` Andreas Dilger

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