Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 9 Sep 2001 09:09:53 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: linux-2.4.10-pre5 |
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On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It's only filesystems that have modified buffers without marking them > dirty (by virtue of having pointers to buffers and delaying the dirtying > until later) that are broken by the "try to make sure all buffers are > up-to-date by reading them in" approach.
Think of the inode and dentry caches. I guess we need some way to invalidate those.
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