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SubjectRe: bdflush flushing memory mapped pages.
On Wed, Apr 09 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Funny you mention this point!
> >
> > I just spent 30-45 minutes on the phone talking to Jens about this very
> > issue. Jens states he can map the model in to 2.5. and will give it a
> > fling in a bit. This issue is a must; however, I had given up on the idea
> > until 2.7. However, the issues he and I addressed, in combination to your
> > request jive in sync.
>
> noooo..... This isn't going to happen. There are many reasons.

[snip]

This isn't Andres point at all. He wants a way to defer completion of
requests to the block layer until you actually know they are on platter.
I think he just tied it into this thread because it sort-of deals with
deferred errors as well.

--
Jens Axboe

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