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From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Drop cache has no effect?
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 01:31:04 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ac5mtcc7.fsf@duaron.myhome.or.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0608300751330.9263@yvahk01.tjqt.qr> (Jan Engelhardt's message of "Wed, 30 Aug 2006 07:54:04 +0200 (MEST)")

Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> writes:

>>> 
>>> That's dirty area, vfat has one read-only bit only. Yes, I also think
>>> this is strange behaviour. But, I worry app is depending on the
>>> current behaviour, because this is pretty old behaviour.
>>> 
>>> Umm.., do someone have any strong reason? I'll make patch at this
>>> weekend, and please test it in -mm tree for a bit long time...?
>>
>>It is pretty weird that permission bits on vfat can magically change in
>>response to memory pressure.
>
> Well, the same happened for procfs in the past (when one was able to chmod it,
> in current kernels it is forbidden.)

IIRC, at least 2.4 doesn't allow it, it's rather new.

> It seems the best thing ATM, no?

I also think it's good. But it wouldn't be good reason for breaking app...
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

      reply	other threads:[~2006-08-30 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-29 12:53 Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-29 18:00 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-29 19:21   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-29 19:36     ` /proc/net/tcp information drop Jörg Hoffmann
2006-08-29 19:49     ` Drop cache has no effect? Andrew Morton
2006-08-30  1:08   ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2006-08-30  1:39     ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-30  5:54       ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-30 16:31         ` OGAWA Hirofumi [this message]

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