Hi,
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 03:33:46PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
> case WRITE:
> ... refile_buffer(bh);
>
> This either needs to be documented or fixed so folks who are calling
> ll_rw_blk() with their own buffer heads don't spend two days chasing
> down bugs introduced into Linux 2.4. We need to have a simple and clean
> AIO interface that is not totally incestuous with the buffer cache.
We do have one: that's what WRITE_RAW is for. And yes, doing any
refile_buffer() in ll_rw_block is ugly as heck, but we seem to be
stuck with it for 2.4.
--Stephen
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