Re: ramfs problem... (unlink of sparse file in "D" state)

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Mon Jan 08 2001 - 08:37:15 EST

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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said:
> I put it into generic_file_write. That covers most fs's it seems. The
> jffs guys are going to switch to generic_file_write soon

It's in CVS already. For 2.4, 'soon' == 'when Linus is ready to start taking
patches'

If you want it for 2.4-ac I can provide a patch which fixes both that and
the oops on open() unlink() read().

-- dwmw2

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