Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: inodes are not cleared! | Date | Wed, 22 Jul 1998 23:10:52 +0100 (BST) |
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> From: Bill Hawes <whawes@star.net> > > But in the case of i_flag, it's apparently a required field for the > VFS functions being used by the networking layer, so networking > needs to give it a correct value. > > This is a layering violation.
I should also note at this point that these are often poor optimisations since we may be drawing lines into cache that were not in cache and which were definitely in cache in the clear inode.
Also 2.0.x has done similar things with file handles. As it happens they all work out safe but there are bugs caused by this very practice still (fortunately harmless) in 2.0
Alan
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