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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Subject: Re: Poor floppy performance in kernel 2.4.10
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, bill davidsen wrote:

>   The change prevents use of stale data, and is a good one. mtools was a

Folks, could you please read the fucking source before discussing the
change that was not?

We had been flushing the cache upon final close() for quite a while; recent
changes come from something else and figuring out WTF had happened in 2.4.12
would be a Good Thing(tm).

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