Re: broken ramdisk in linux 2.3.18

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Sat, 11 Sep 1999 19:14:51 +0200 (CEST)


On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Clifford Wolf wrote:

>I have the following problem with the ramdisk in linux 2.3.18. This little
>test script shows the problem:

The ramdisk is a known bug. To fix it I'll have to change some part of the
page-cache/buffer code. I just posted a patch which fix it but Linus
convinced me that for the coherency issue it's better to avoid shrinking
inodes with page-cache queued on them. So I'll have to redo the page-cache
patch removing the inode part and then I'll have to rewrite the inode
allocation using the slab.

Andrea

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