Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

Alan Cox
2000-12-26T15:53:43Z

> The simple fix is along the lines of adding code to fsync() that walks the
> inode page list and writes out dirty pages.
>
> The clever and clean fix is to split the inode page list into two lists,
> one for dirty and one for clean pages, and only walk the dirty list.

Like the patches that were floating around on the list for the past
few months to make O_SYNC work. Could those be used for it ?