Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 09:34:56 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Enache Adrian <enache@rdslink.ro> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2-BETA: giving up on 4 buffers (ata) Message-ID: <20031207093130.D6522@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20031206142941.GA1361@ratsnest.hole> References: <20031126183744.GA9140@merlin.emma.line.org> <200312050055.16683.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> <20031206142941.GA1361@ratsnest.hole>
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On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Enache Adrian wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 a.d., Bruce Evans wrote: > > of any publicly available fix. My version of ext2fs avoids the bug by > > doing buffering differently. > > Sorry for the ignorant question: > Is that a new ext2fs implementation or just the older (working) > sys/gnu/ext2fs ? It is the older ext2fs with more things done the BSD way. Linux ext2fs keeps a private cache but normal BSD file system code puts buffers back in the main cache immediately after using them. Bruce
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