Re: Test12 ll_rw_block error.

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@caldera.de)
Date: Tue Dec 19 2000 - 12:40:23 EST

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In article <3A3F904F.8FBC46A5@innominate.de> you wrote:
>> I think the semantics of the filesystem specific ->flush and ->writepage
>> are not the same.
>>
>> Is ok for filesystem specific writepage() code to sync other "physically
>> contiguous" dirty pages with reference to the one requested by
>> writepage() ?
>>
>> If so, it can do the same job as the ->flush() idea we've discussing.
>
> Except that for ->writepage you don't have the option of *not* writing
> the specified page.

In current -test13pre you have.

Christoph

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