>>>>> "rik" == Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes:
hi
rik> Imagine deleting 30MB of files from ramfs and keeping the
rik> dirty bit. If we would reuse that memory later for caching some
rik> files from CDROM or disk, they would still have the dirty bit
rik> set and shrink_mmap() would always skip them ...
That means that nobody has been doing serious testing in the ramfs
thing from that moment. Sorry if I was not clear enough the first
time (I need sleeping badly). Yes it was a hidden bug.
Later, Juan.
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