Re: 2.3.28 more on ramdisk problems....

Mr. James W. Laferriere (babydr@baby-dragons.com)
Mon, 15 Nov 1999 14:22:35 -0800 (PST)


Hello Tigrand, By chance is there a fs update being run ?
this actually sounds as if the fs data isn't being written
to the fs in question . Maybe I am way off track to . Hth JimL

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Eleonora Autore wrote:
> > # od -tx4 -Ax /mnt/sbin/init
> > 000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> > *
> > 006420 00000000
> > 006424
> more info, if I create a new file and write some data to it I can read it
> back ok, but if I umount/mount fs again then that file's data is filled
> with zeroes but metadata is read correctly.
> Besides, I am looking at the rd_request() and it looks like a joke:
>
> if (CURRENT->cmd == READ)
> memset(CURRENT->buffer, 0, len);
> else
> set_bit(BH_Protected, &CURRENT->bh->b_state);
> how can it possibly be so simple - where is the actual io? On the other
> hand, it is the same in 2.2.x and 2.2.12 works fine.
> Still looking....
> Tigran.
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