Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Dec 2000 18:40:23 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: Test12 ll_rw_block error. |
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In article <3A3F904F.8FBC46A5@innominate.de> you wrote: >> I think the semantics of the filesystem specific ->flush and ->writepage >> are not the same. >> >> Is ok for filesystem specific writepage() code to sync other "physically >> contiguous" dirty pages with reference to the one requested by >> writepage() ? >> >> If so, it can do the same job as the ->flush() idea we've discussing. > > Except that for ->writepage you don't have the option of *not* writing > the specified page.
In current -test13pre you have.
Christoph
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