Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 03:40:26 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 pmap.c src/sys/kern vfs_cluster.c src/sys/miscfs/specfs spec_vnops.c src/sys/vm vm_map Message-ID: <199805210840.DAA00800@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980521010307.22482C-100000@current1.whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "May 21, 98 01:03:26 am"
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Julian Elischer said: > > can you explain a bit more? > Yes... Basically, a FSYNC operation into a UFS with softdep filesystem doesn't guarantee I/O completion upon return. That really messes up some assumptions made in the VM code. My fixes fix that problem. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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