From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sync semantics.
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:16:06 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101116011606.GH22876@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101115074241.GH16758@myhost.felk.cvut.cz>
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 08:42:41AM +0100, Michal Svoboda wrote:
> 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?
The latter.
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-16 1:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-11 12:52 Sync semantics Rogier Wolff
2010-11-12 7:11 ` Michal Svoboda
2010-11-15 2:39 ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-15 7:42 ` Michal Svoboda
2010-11-16 1:16 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2010-11-16 14:31 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-17 8:09 ` Rogier Wolff
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