From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Apr 7 00:36:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA12375 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 00:36:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA12369 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 00:36:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA07419; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 00:35:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804070735.AAA07419@implode.root.com> To: Peter Wemm cc: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/6212: Two bugs with MFS filesystem fixed, two features added In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Apr 1998 22:50:01 PDT." <199804070550.WAA24796@hub.freebsd.org> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 00:35:18 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Although, I'm puzzled why the msync() is needed at all, since it's just a > mmap'ed file. Perhaps there is some new lurking problem with synchronizing > of mmap'ed files... :-/ We've gone both ways with this issue in the past, but the final resolution was that it is better to require the msync() rather than automatically flushing VM system managed pages to the backing store. > Can you please do us a favour and supply a context or unified diff? > ie: 'cvs diff -u' Your patch could then be automatically applied rather > than having to guess the context by hand. ...I was going to complain about this myself. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message