Re: [Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1

From: Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Date: Wed Jan 19 2000 - 02:40:12 EST


Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> And when you say "ah, I wrote the wrong vmlinuz file, so just overwrite it
> with the right one" and you have to wait the double of time before being
> able to extract the floppy. That's ugly IMHO.

That shouldn't be what happens. You overwrite with the new file, and
that immediately invalidates all pending writes for the old file, at
least where the blocks overlap. You lose a bit due to request queuing
but it shouldn't be much.

-- Jamie

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