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From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: David <david@blue-labs.org>, 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 18:44:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <69340000.988757085@tiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AEF34AE.3070601@blue-labs.org>



On Tuesday, May 01, 2001 03:11:58 PM -0700 David <david@blue-labs.org>
wrote:

> 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.

Does it happen with -o notail?  Which editor?

-chris




  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-01 22:51 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
2001-05-01 22:44   ` Chris Mason [this message]
2001-05-01 23:00 ` David S. Miller
2001-05-01 23:21   ` Frank de Lange

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