Re: [patch 1/13] minimal rmap

Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
17 Jul 2002 11:11:16 -0700


On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 10:57, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 July 2002 07:29, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 11: The nightly updatedb run is still evicting everything.
>
> That is not a problem with rmap per se, it's a result of not properly
> handling streaming IO. I don't think you want to get bogged down in this
> detail at the moment, it will only distract from the real issues. My
> recommendation is to just pretend for the time being that this is correct
> behaviour.

A good argument for an O_STREAM... various semantics we can modify for
it.

Robert Love

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