Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Peter T. Breuer" <> | Subject | what happened to mark_buffer_protected() | Date | Mon, 15 Oct 2001 21:44:34 +0200 (MET DST) |
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Nice function. Used to use it. 2.4.8. 2.4.12-going-on-13 and it's no longer there. No BH_Protected field in the bh either.
OK, so how do I stop buffers being reclaimed now? My intention is to keep the buffer hanging around forever once I have written to it, so that further reads to that block of my device return the buffer content without ever getting to my device (that's right, write-once, read-many).
He's off to read the ramdisk code, tara, tarum, tara ...
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