Re: * Re: Severe trashing in 2.4.4

Chris Mason
2001-05-01T22:51:28Z

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