Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757662Ab0KOHmu (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:42:50 -0500 Received: from relay.felk.cvut.cz ([147.32.80.7]:53452 "EHLO relay.felk.cvut.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757619Ab0KOHmt (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:42:49 -0500 Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:42:41 +0100 From: Michal Svoboda To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Sync semantics. Message-ID: <20101115074241.GH16758@myhost.felk.cvut.cz> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20101111125219.GA945@bitwizard.nl> <20101115023932.GD22876@dastard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FUaywKC54iCcLzqT" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101115023932.GD22876@dastard> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-FELK-MailScanner-Information: X-MailScanner-ID: oAF7gfoK014071 X-FELK-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-FELK-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-1.9, required 6, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -1.90) X-FELK-MailScanner-From: michal.svoboda@agents.felk.cvut.cz X-FELK-MailScanner-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-FELK-MailScanner-Watermark: 1290411763.51523@/XAEegHH5yBlANnleaI/Jg Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 896 Lines: 31 --FUaywKC54iCcLzqT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Dave Chinner wrote: > Depending on the kernel, sync will keep writing if you keep > dirtying. This should be mostly fixed in 2.6.36.... Is that a "we hope that it is so but we are not sure" kind of "mostly", or a "there are known cases when this is not true" one? Michal Svoboda --FUaywKC54iCcLzqT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkzg5HEACgkQg/fU9pp1uX5irACggvOc6bw8jTDSZc1AZMt0uw9A LgsAnAqy8ubqFo1BI8gbylTfnIMUPY59 =nNx0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FUaywKC54iCcLzqT-- -- 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/