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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:30:30 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit
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On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 09:42:05AM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> Failing getblk would likely introduce filesystem corruption. Look at
> getblk in 2.0 - when allocating new page fails it tries to reuse existing
> clean buffers or wakes up bdflush and waits until it writes them. This is
> the right thing to do. 

wrong.

Andrea
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