Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:32:16 +0100 | Subject | Re: Disabling in-memory write cache for x86-64 in Linux II | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > Apparently all this stuff isn't working as desired (and perhaps as designed) > in this case. Will take a look after a return to normalcy ;)
It definitely doesn't work. I can trivially reproduce problems by just having a cheap (==slow) USB key with an ext3 filesystem, and going a git clone to it. The end result is not pretty, and that's actually not even a huge amount of data.
Linus
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