Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Apr 2003 07:36:39 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: Memory mapped files question |
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> Hi, everyone. I'm running into a problem that I hope someone else has seen, > and maybe can help solve. We're using the mmap system function for memory > mapped files, but our updates never get flushed until we munmap or msysnc. > Are we missing something? Is there a tunable parameter in the kernel or > filing system that can be set to flag these updates as 'write required'?
This was discussed about a week ago on either linux-kernel or linux-mm. The short answer is "yes, that's deliberate", but an archive search would probably be fruitful.
M.
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