From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 1 May 2001 18:30:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 1 May 2001 18:30:36 -0400 Received: from james.kalifornia.com ([208.179.59.2]:56421 "EHLO james.kalifornia.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 1 May 2001 18:30:33 -0400 Message-ID: <3AEF34AE.3070601@blue-labs.org> Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 15:11:58 -0700 From: David User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4 i686; en-US; rv:0.8.1+) Gecko/20010430 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frank de Lange CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: * Re: Severe trashing in 2.4.4 In-Reply-To: <20010501235046.A23616@unternet.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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 >