On Thu 23-03-17 13:07:23, Raymond Jennings wrote: > If you delete a file (and don't have it open), and there's a bunch of > dirty data for that file still in page cache, does all that dirty data > disappear or does it still get written back? The dirty data just gets discarded when the inode is deleted. In fact if the file fits in memory (and in dirty_limit), none of the data need to make it to disk. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR
