Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:09:53 -0200 (BRST) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: inode->i_dirty_buffers redundant ? |
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On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, V Ganesh wrote:
> now that we have inode->i_mapping->dirty_pages, what do we need > inode->i_dirty_buffers for ? I understand the latter was added for the O_SYNC > changes before dirty_pages came into the picture. but now both seem to be > doing more or less the same thing.
inode->i_mapping->dirty_pages contains only mapped data pages of the inode, not metadata.
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