Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Apr 2001 12:05:14 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption. |
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On Sat, Apr 28 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Linus Torvalds writes: > > > The buffer cache is "virtual" in the sense that /dev/hda is a > > completely separate name-space from /dev/hda1, even if there > > is some physical overlap. > > So the aliasing problems and elevator algorithm confusion remain?
At least for the I/O scheduler confusion, requests to partitions will remap the buffer location and this problem disappears nicely. It's not a big issue, really.
> Is this ever likely to change, and what is with the 1 kB assumptions? > (Hmmm, cruft left over from the 1 kB Minix filesystem blocks?)
What 1kB assumption?
-- Jens Axboe
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