Re: Running 2.4.0-ac11

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Sat, 27 Jan 2001 14:33:48 +0100


On Sat, Jan 27 2001, Matti Långvall wrote:
> You're right, no more Busy inodes.

Good, so that was the cause.

> But magicdev is nice for us lazy people..

No, the _concept_ is nice for lazy people but the current magicdev is
not worth much. I know Alan has tinkered with a new version, hopefully
that will be much better. Most newer drives have real (but polled)
media notification event classes, which is a much better way to
accomplish what magicdev is trying to do.

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* Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* SuSE Labs
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