Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Stale super_blocks in 2.2 | Date | Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:38:42 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> That can be a problem for fiber channel devices. I saw some issues with > invalidate_buffers and page caching discussed in 2.4 space. Any reasons > come to mind why I shouldn't call invalidate on the the way down instead > (or in addition)?
The I/O completed a few seconds later anyway when bdflush got around to writing the data back out. I dont plan to change 2.2. 2.4 doesnt do that optimisation which is annoying in a few cases and a lot less suprising in others
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