Re: Poor floppy performance in kernel 2.4.10

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:15:07 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, bill davidsen wrote:

> The change prevents use of stale data, and is a good one. mtools was a

Folks, could you please read the fucking source before discussing the
change that was not?

We had been flushing the cache upon final close() for quite a while; recent
changes come from something else and figuring out WTF had happened in 2.4.12
would be a Good Thing(tm).

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