On Mon, 12 May 2008, David Chinner wrote: > If you are going to clean bufferheads (or pages), please clean entire > mappings via ->writepages as it leads to far superior I/O patterns > and a far higher aggregate rate of page cleaning..... That brings up another issue: Lets say I use writepages on a large file (couple of gig). How much do you want to write back? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html