Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption.

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Fri May 04 2001 - 10:29:40 EST


On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 01:56:14PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Or you can rewrite block_read/write to use the page cache, in which case
> you'd have more luck doing the above.

once block_dev is in pagecache there will obviously be no-way to share
cache between the block device and the filesystem, because all the
caches will be in completly different address spaces.

Andrea
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