Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] block: Do not discard buffers under a mounted filesystem

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On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 02:05:54PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Discarding blocks and buffers under a mounted filesystem is hardly
> anything admin wants to do. Usually it will confuse the filesystem and
> sometimes the loss of buffer_head state (including b_private field) can
> even cause crashes like:

Doesn't work if the file system uses multiple devices.  I think we
just really need to split the fs buffer_head address space from the
block device one.  Everything else is just going to cause a huge mess.



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