On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:16:05 +0200 (CEST), Andrea Arcangeli
<andrea@e-mind.com> said:
> Shound't we also check if the buffer was protected before put it on the
> freelist?
No, ramdisk buffers are allocated on demand and freed on demand: it is
the bforget action of dropping protected buffers which performs that
freeing.
--Stephen
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