Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Jan 2000 22:03:53 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1 |
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On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > > Folks, looks like we have a funny failure mode: we invalidate buffers only > upon close(), right? Well, going through the partition table happens > without open(). So consider the following scenario:
A variation on this is why the partitioning code does something along the lines of
bh = bread(..) ... bforget(bh);
(ie uses "bforget()" instead of "brelse()").
So you actually shouldn't see that failure mode you're talking about. But hey, who knows.
Linus
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