Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 12 Dec 2001 09:51:22 +0900 | From | Tachino Nobuhiro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] direct IO breaks root filesystem |
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At Tue, 11 Dec 2001 16:34:15 -0800 (PST), Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Tachino Nobuhiro wrote: > > > > Your patch will break Goto's fix because mapping->host does not have > > correct i_mode. > > Note that Goto's fix really is quite _fundamentally_ broken. Don't use it. >
OK.
But my patch fixes another bug. Current /dev/ram* does not return -ENOSPC at the end of device size because generic_file_write() also checks whether mapping->host is a block device. So I think the patch is required. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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