Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 12 May 2001 18:18:07 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][CFT] (updated) ext2 directories in pagecache |
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On Sat, 12 May 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> We could use the "buffer_uptodate" flag on the buffer to signal that > the block has been checked. AFAIK, a new buffer will not be uptodate, > and once it is it will not be read from disk again... However, if a > user-space process read the buffer would also mark it uptodate without > doing the check... Maybe we should use a new BH_ pointer... Just need > to factor out the ext2_check_page() code so that it works on a generic > memory pointer and end pointer.
Or you could simply use ext2_get_page() and forget about this crap.
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