Re: Possible Idea with filesystem buffering.

Rik van Riel
2002-01-21T01:41:36Z

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Hans Reiser wrote:

> I think I must have said free when I meant clean, and this naturally
> confused you.
>
> writepage() cleans pages, which is sometimes necessary for freeing them,
> but it does not free them itself.
>
> The one place where we would free them is when we repack slums before
> writing them. In this case, an empty node is not going to get accessed
> again, so it should be freed.

Agreed.

Rik
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