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From: Johann Lombardi <johann@clusterfs.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Clear PG_error before reading a page
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 19:06:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070529170610.GB15502@chiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070517094730.5cdfaa64.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:47:30AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> So running ioctl(BLKFLSBUF) against the device will fix things up?

No, 'blockdev --flushbufs /dev/sdb' doesn't help.

> Perhaps not, and we should invalidate all the file data as well. The
> only ways we have of doing that are umount+mount or /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches.

'echo > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' works. Thanks.

Johann

      reply	other threads:[~2007-05-29 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-15 14:37 Clear PG_error before reading a page Johann Lombardi
2007-05-15 17:11 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-15 21:01   ` Johann Lombardi
2007-05-15 21:23     ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-16 15:39       ` Johann Lombardi
2007-05-16 15:49         ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-16 16:12         ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-17 11:42           ` Johann Lombardi
2007-05-17 16:47             ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-29 17:06               ` Johann Lombardi [this message]

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