Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 01 May 2001 18:44:45 -0400 | From | Chris Mason <> | Subject | Re: * Re: Severe trashing in 2.4.4 |
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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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