On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > A variation on this is why the partitioning code does something along the
> > lines of
> >
> > bh = bread(..)
> > ...
> > bforget(bh);
> >
> > (ie uses "bforget()" instead of "brelse()").
> >
> > So you actually shouldn't see that failure mode you're talking about. But
> > hey, who knows.
>
> Agree, but why should it not be a requirement to relearn about the device
> everytime it is opened from user-land? I am assuming events like
> fdisk/cfdisk and load/unload events of media.
Hey, the point being exactly that we might get a stale stuff in buffer
cache since the previous time. And yes, looks like bforget() is in all
places where it ought to be.
> Since one of the goals with CDR/CD-RW's is to be able to perform a
> multi-mount of sessions that react like drive partitions.
>
> This will make a mess, since nothing in the code (that I know of) currents
> entertains this possiblity.
Details, please?
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Jan 23 2000 - 21:00:13 EST