Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Drop cache has no effect? | From | OGAWA Hirofumi <> | Date | Thu, 31 Aug 2006 01:31:04 +0900 |
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Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> writes:
>>> >>> That's dirty area, vfat has one read-only bit only. Yes, I also think >>> this is strange behaviour. But, I worry app is depending on the >>> current behaviour, because this is pretty old behaviour. >>> >>> Umm.., do someone have any strong reason? I'll make patch at this >>> weekend, and please test it in -mm tree for a bit long time...? >> >>It is pretty weird that permission bits on vfat can magically change in >>response to memory pressure. > > Well, the same happened for procfs in the past (when one was able to chmod it, > in current kernels it is forbidden.)
IIRC, at least 2.4 doesn't allow it, it's rather new.
> It seems the best thing ATM, no?
I also think it's good. But it wouldn't be good reason for breaking app... -- OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> - 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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