Re: NWFS broken on 2.4.3 -- someone removed WRITERAW

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Tue, 24 Apr 2001 00:58:09 +0200


On Mon, Apr 23 2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
>
> Hey guys,
>
> Whomever removed WRITERAW has broken NWFS. WRITE requests call
> _refile_buffer() after the I/O request and take my locally created
> buffer heads and munge them back into the linux buffer cache, causing
> massive memory corruption in the system. These buffers don't belong
> in Linus' buffer cache, they are owned by my LRU and ll_rw_block
> should not be blindly filing them back into the buffer cache.
>
> Please put something back in to allow me to write without the buffer
> heads always getting filed into Linus' buffer cache. This has
> broken NWFS on 2.4.3 and above.

bh->b_end_io = my_end_io_handler;
submit_bh(WRITE, bh);

Be a happy camper.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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