Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jan 2002 19:01:44 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: Possible Idea with filesystem buffering. |
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Hugh Dickins wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > > This is actually really important --- writepage on its own cannot > > distinguish between requests to flush something to disk (eg. msync or > > fsync), and requests to evict dirty data from memory. > > Actually, that much can now be distinguished: > PageLaunder(page) when evicting from memory, > !PageLaunder(page) when msync or fsync.
Nifty! Thanks for pointing this out.
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