Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:28:53 -0400 | From | Theodore Tso <> | Subject | Re: [patch][rfc] rewrite ramdisk |
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 05:47:12PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > + /* > + * ram device BLKFLSBUF has special semantics, we want to actually > + * release and destroy the ramdisk data. > + */
We won't be able to fix completely this for a while time, but the fact that BLKFLSBUF has special semantics has always been a major wart. Could we perhaps create a new ioctl, say RAMDISKDESTORY, and add a deperecation printk for BLKFLSBUF when passed to the ramdisk? I doubt there are many tools that actually take advantage of this wierd aspect of ramdisks, so hopefully it's something we could remove in a 18 months or so...
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