>>>>> "Nick" == Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> writes: >> Yep, known bug. Page writeback locking is messed up for buffer_head >> users. The extNfs folks volunteered to look into this a while back >> but I don't think they have found the time yet. Nick> What do you mean by messed up? Allowing modifications to the page Nick> while it is under writeback? This is deliberate of course and not Nick> limited to buffer_head users either. Messed up in the sense that (at least last I looked) very few buffer_head users were aware of the existence of the page writeback bit. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- 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
