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 18:51:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 1 May 2001 18:51:10 -0400 Received: from roc-24-169-102-121.rochester.rr.com ([24.169.102.121]:43020 "EHLO roc-24-169-102-121.rochester.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 1 May 2001 18:50:54 -0400 Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 18:44:45 -0400 From: Chris Mason To: David , Frank de Lange cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: * Re: Severe trashing in 2.4.4 Message-ID: <69340000.988757085@tiny> In-Reply-To: <3AEF34AE.3070601@blue-labs.org> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.0.8 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday, May 01, 2001 03:11:58 PM -0700 David 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