Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:32:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:32:15 -0500 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:21519 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:32:08 -0500 Subject: Re: Stale super_blocks in 2.2 To: pauld@egenera.com (Phil Auld) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 13:32:38 +0000 (GMT) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3A8A87A7.4A3CE58D@egenera.com> from "Phil Auld" at Feb 14, 2001 08:27:03 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I can make the changes needed. I was really curious if you, or anyone else, > thought there might be page caching issues involved with invalidating on the way > down. 2.4 already addresses this. With 2.2 or 2.4 you can force buffer flushes from userspace too - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/