From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: V Ganesh <ganesh@veritas.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sct@redhat.com
Subject: Re: inode->i_dirty_buffers redundant ?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:26:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010124112624.M11607@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200101240955.PAA28367@vxindia.veritas.com>
In-Reply-To: <200101240955.PAA28367@vxindia.veritas.com>; from ganesh@veritas.com on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:25:16PM +0530
Hi,
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:25:16PM +0530, V Ganesh wrote:
> now that we have inode->i_mapping->dirty_pages, what do we need
> inode->i_dirty_buffers for ?
Metadata. Specifically, directory contents and indirection blocks.
--Stephen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-24 11:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-24 9:55 inode->i_dirty_buffers redundant ? V Ganesh
2001-01-24 9:09 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-24 11:26 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
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2001-01-25 10:47 V Ganesh
2001-01-25 16:44 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-25 20:05 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-25 21:30 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-26 11:35 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-26 19:05 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-25 21:11 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-26 17:34 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-26 9:13 V Ganesh
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