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From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To: Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vnode_pager.c
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On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Matt Dillon wrote:

> dillon      2001/10/12 11:17:34 PDT
>
>   Modified files:
>     sys/vm               vnode_pager.c
>   Log:
>   Finally fix the VM bug where a file whos EOF occurs in the middle of a page
>   would sometimes prevent a dirty page from being cleaned, even when synced,
>   resulting in the dirty page being re-flushed to disk every 30-60 seconds or
>   so, forever.  The problem is that when the filesystem flushes a page to

How commonly did this occur?

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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