Re: BUG() hit with ramfs usage (v 2.4.0test1-ac18)

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 14 2000 - 22:51:03 EST


On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, wollny wrote:

> The thing that makes me wonder a bit is, in ramfs/inode.c
> SetPageDirty is called, but never ClearPageDirty, but then again, i really
> have not looked long enough to understand the code.

        You had not. The thing has _no_ backing store, so all data is in
pagecache. IOW, you should keep it there until you finally dispose of a
page - there will be no place to reread it from.

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