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Subject: Re: 5.2-BETA: giving up on 4 buffers (ata)
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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