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From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
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On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> This still doesn't tell "sync()" about dirty pages (ie the "innd loses the
> active file after a reboot" bug), but now the places that mark pages dirty
> are under control. Next step..

Do you really want to split the per-address-space pages list in dirty and
clean lists for 2.4 ?

Or do you think walking the current per-address-space page list searching
for dirty pages and syncing them is ok?

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