Re: 2.1.110 freepages.min change

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 07:37:37 -0400

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Trever Adams wrote:

> My questions are simple: If the inode/file/whatever that the dcache
> entry referred to is still open and being used, or hasn't yet been
> synched to disk and is "closed" and that dcache entry is pruned,
> does/can it cause disk corruption or data corruption in the file. Q.
> #2, Could the disk corruption that a few people have reported be caused
> by the bad patch to vmalloc (at least I believe that was the malloc
> involved)?

Dcache pruning is done only for unused dentries, and any dirty inodes
will still be written out before being reused. So it shouldn't be
related to any of the other problems people are seeing.

Regards,
Bill

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