On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> Well heck, that was easy enough. The answer was in thread..
> 'why invalidate_buffers() in blkdev_put()?'
That's pure understatement. I'm in the Unix and C business for twenty
years now, but I could have been testing for years to find this out.
That leads us to the conclusion, that "easy" is a relative term.
> - if (atomic_dec_and_test(&bdev->bd_openers)) {
> + if (atomic_dec_and_test(&bdev->bd_openers) && MAJOR(rdev) != RAMDISK_MAJOR) {
> /* invalidating buffers will go here */
> invalidate_buffers(rdev);
Thanks again, I will test that tonight.
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