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Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 14:30:38 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Re: PATCH: Rewrite of truncate_inode_pages (WIP)
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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
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To: "Juan J. Quintela" <quintela@fi.udc.es>
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>>>>> " " == Juan J Quintela <quintela@fi.udc.es> writes:

     > OK, the problem here is that __remove_inode_pages needs to be
     > called with page->buffers==NULL.  What do you suggest to obtain
     > that?

     > Ok, tell me *the* correct way of doing that.  We need to make
     > sere that __remove_inode_page is called with page->buffers ==
     > NULL.  It is ok for you:
     >    if(page->buffers)
     >         BUG();

That's good. It won't affect NFS or smbfs, and it will catch any block 
devices that try to use that function.

Cheers,
  Trond
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