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    SubjectRe: * Re: Severe trashing in 2.4.4


    On Tuesday, May 01, 2001 03:11:58 PM -0700 David <david@blue-labs.org>
    wrote:

    > Can't say for a definite fact that it was reiserfs but I can say for a
    > definite fact that something fishy happens sometimes.
    >
    > If I have a text file open, something.html comes to mind, If I edit it
    > and save it in one rxvt and open it in another rxvt, my changes may not
    > be there. If I save it *again* or exit the editing process, I will see
    > the changes in the second term. No, I'm not accidently forgetting to
    > save it, I know for a fact that I saved it and the first terminal shows
    > the non-modified state with the changes and the second term shows the
    > previous data.
    >
    > Somewhere something is stuck in cache and what's on disk isn't what's in
    > cache and a second process for some reason gets what is on disk and not
    > what is in cache.
    >
    > It happens infrequently but it -does- happen.

    Does it happen with -o notail? Which editor?

    -chris



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