Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 20:41:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 20:41:29 -0500 Received: from garrincha.netbank.com.br ([200.203.199.88]:30475 "HELO netbank.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 20:41:21 -0500 Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 23:40:40 -0200 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: To: Hans Reiser Cc: Shawn Starr , Subject: Re: Possible Idea with filesystem buffering. In-Reply-To: <3C4B6E30.2020007@namesys.com> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Hans Reiser wrote: > I think I must have said free when I meant clean, and this naturally > confused you. > > writepage() cleans pages, which is sometimes necessary for freeing them, > but it does not free them itself. > > The one place where we would free them is when we repack slums before > writing them. In this case, an empty node is not going to get accessed > again, so it should be freed. Agreed. Rik -- "Linux holds advantages over the single-vendor commercial OS" -- Microsoft's "Competing with Linux" document http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ - 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/