Re: minix/ext2 + rd problem

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On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 04:34:25PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> You can flush and invalidate the blockdev with the --flushbufs argument
> to blockdev command. However you can't use this with ramdisk devices:
> someone thought it would be a good idea to save on precious ioctl space
> and implemented totally different semantics on that device with the
> same ioctl (it throws away the underlying data as well as the cache).

What happens if we declare that a bug and fix it (and add a new ioctl to
actually throw away the data ... oh, wait, we have one, it's BLKDISCARD)?

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