Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 18 Sep 2001 05:31:48 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.10-pre11 |
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> This also merges the blkdev in page cache patch, and that will hopefully > make it noticeably easier to do the "do bread() with page cache too", at > which point a lot of the current ugly synchronization issues will go away.
Umm... Linus, had you actually read through the fs/block_device.c part of that? It's not just ugly as hell, it's (AFAICS) not hard to oops if you have several inodes sharing major:minor. ->bd_inode and its treatment are bogus. Please, read it through and consider reverting - in its current state code is an ugly mess.
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