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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:20:16 +0100
From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de>
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Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:

>Hi Martin,
>
>In article <3C568C52.2060707@evision-ventures.com> you wrote:
>
>>>One "patch penguin" scales no better than I do. In fact, I will claim
>>>that most of them scale a whole lot worse. 
>>>
>>Bla bla bla... Just tell how frequenty do I have to tell the world, that 
>>the read_ahead array is a write
>>only variable inside the kernel and therefore not used at 
>>all?????!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>
>It IS used. (hint: take a look at fs/hfs/file.c).
>

Right, but the usage there is semantically *invalid*.


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