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From: David <david@blue-labs.org>
To: Frank de Lange <frank@unternet.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: * Re: Severe trashing in 2.4.4
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 15:11:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AEF34AE.3070601@blue-labs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010501235046.A23616@unternet.org>

Can't say for a definite fact that it was reiserfs but I can say for a 
definite fact that something fishy happens sometimes.

If I have a text file open, something.html comes to mind, If I edit it 
and save it in one rxvt and open it in another rxvt, my changes may not 
be there.  If I save it *again* or exit the editing process, I will see 
the changes in the second term.  No, I'm not accidently forgetting to 
save it, I know for a fact that I saved it and the first terminal shows 
the non-modified state with the changes and the second term shows the 
previous data.

Somewhere something is stuck in cache and what's on disk isn't what's in 
cache and a second process for some reason gets what is on disk and not 
what is in cache.

It happens infrequently but it -does- happen.

David

Frank de Lange wrote:

>Well,
>
>When a puzzled Alexey wondered whether the problems I was seeing with 2.4.4
>might be related to a failure to execute 'make clean' before compiling the
>kernel, I replied in the negative as I *always* clean up before compiling
>anything. Yet, for the sake of science and such I moved the kernel tree and
>started from scratch.
>
>The problems I was seeing are no more, 2.4.4 behaves like a good kernel should.
>
>Was it me? Was it reiserfs? Was is divine intervention? I will probably never
>find out, but for now this thread, and the accompanying scare, can Resquiam In
>Paces.
>
>Cheers//Frank
>



  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-01 22:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-01 21:50 * Re: Severe trashing in 2.4.4 Frank de Lange
2001-05-01 22:11 ` David [this message]
2001-05-01 22:44   ` Chris Mason
2001-05-01 23:00 ` David S. Miller
2001-05-01 23:21   ` Frank de Lange

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