Re: why invalidate_buffers() in blkdev_put()?

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Sun Jan 16 2000 - 14:24:04 EST

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On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Mikael Pettersson wrote:

>Is it really necessary to forcibly throw away in-core cached
>data just because the device was closed?

No.

Andrea

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