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SubjectRe: statfs() / statvfs() syscall ballsup...
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>>>>> " " == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Joel Becker wrote:
>>
>> msync() forces write(), like fsync(). It doesn't force read().

> Actually, the kernel has a "readahead(fd, offset, size)" system
> call that will start asynchronous read-ahead on any
> mapping. After that, just touching the page will obviously map
> in and synchronize the result.

That's different. That's just preheating the page cache.

It does nothing for the case Joel mentioned where 2 different nodes
are writing to the same device, and you need to force a read in order
to resynchronize the page cache.
Apart from O_DIRECT, we have nothing in the kernel as it stands that
will allow userland to deal with this case.

Cheers,
Trond
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