From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 16:00:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 16:00:37 -0400 Received: from embolism.psychosis.com ([216.242.103.100]:2058 "EHLO embolism.psychosis.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 16:00:34 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Dave Cinege Reply-To: dcinege@psychosis.com To: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH] invalidate buffers on blkdev_put Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 16:02:51 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] In-Reply-To: <20010927140312.A35@toy.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20010927140312.A35@toy.ucw.cz> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 27 September 2001 10:03, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > It's solvable, but not obvious. It _does_ solve coherency problems > > > between device page cache and buffer cache (thus killing > > > update_buffers() and its ilk), but the last issue (new access path to > > > page-private buffer_heads) may be rather nasty. > > > > It's certainly solvable, but it is also certainly very fraught with tons > > of small details. I'll be very happy if people end up looking through the > > patches _very_ critically (and don't even bother testing them if you > > don't have a machine where you can lose a filesystem or two). > > Time to rename 2.4.10 to 2.5.0? ;-) It broke my feature patch. Good enough for me. ; > -- The time is now 22:19 (Totalitarian) - http://www.ccops.org/clock.html