> > That seems like a severe defect. How can such a defect be tolerated in this day and > age? Why does the io accounting not track how many pages the process dirties rather > than how many it actually initiates the writeout for? > > Typically File System services do not offer semantics of transactional isolation. Attempts to add that took place and were rejected. Therefore, we are speaking only about some potential performance penalty, right? -- 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
