Alexander writes:
> * uptodate pages should never become non-uptodate.
> uptodate .. pages ... never have data _older_ than on disk
This may actually be a problem in the future... what about shared access
block devices like FCAL or a distributed filesystem? It has to be
possible for pages to become non-uptodate in a sane way.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto,
\ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert
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