On Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 06:21:20PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> I remember that there was a thread a while ago that set_blocksize()
> clears the contents of a ramdisk, and I'm sure that get/set_blocksize()
> will cause problem if the computer is not idle.
I was the one who spotted the problem with mounting a MSDOS fs on a ramdisk
destroying its contents.
After SCT pointed me to the reason, I implemented a workaround and posted it
here.
The problem with curing this problem on the one side is that a lot of
functions like set_blocksize() don't return anything telling the caller what
happened, so you can't handle problems in upper levels ...
I didn't even think of synchronization problem in MP environments.
I think, Steven is the right persons to discuss this with.
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Dipl.Phys. Kurt Garloff <kurt@garloff.de> [Dortmund, FRG]
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