On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 07:33:31PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 16:02 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > What is "the problem"? Can we get "the problem"'s description included > > in the changelog? > > > > The patch is fairly ugly, somewhat costly and makes things (even) more > > complex. Sigh. > > The problem is that currently, pages can be marked as dirty after they > have been written out, or even during writeout. > > IOW: the filesystem and the mm no longer agree on the state of the page, > which again triggers issues such as > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12913 Thanks, that would go nicely at the top of the changelog. -- 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
