Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Aug 2006 07:54:04 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Drop cache has no effect? |
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>> >> That's dirty area, vfat has one read-only bit only. Yes, I also think >> this is strange behaviour. But, I worry app is depending on the >> current behaviour, because this is pretty old behaviour. >> >> Umm.., do someone have any strong reason? I'll make patch at this >> weekend, and please test it in -mm tree for a bit long time...? > >It is pretty weird that permission bits on vfat can magically change in >response to memory pressure.
Well, the same happened for procfs in the past (when one was able to chmod it, in current kernels it is forbidden.)
>But no, I'm not really advocating any changes in this area - I don't recall >any complaints (surprised) and the chances are that if we changed it >(ie: not permit the inode to accept changes which cannot be stored on disk) >then someone's app would break. > >otoh, it is pretty bad behaviour...
It seems the best thing ATM, no?
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