On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Quite frankly the BDEV_* handling was and is a total mess IMHO, even if
> it was written by you ;), there was no difference at all from many of
> them, I didn't fixed that but I had to check all them on the differences
> until I realized there was none. I also think the other things you
There certainly _are_ differences (e.g. in handling the moment
when you close them).
> mentioned (besides the inode pinning bug, non critical) are not buggy
_What_?
int fd = open("/dev/ram0", O_RDWR);
ioctl(fd, BLKFLSBUF);
ioctl(fd, BLKFLSBUF);
and you claim that resulting oops is not a bug?
> (infact I never had a single report), but well we'll verify that in
Richard, is that you? What had you done with real Andrea?
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