Re: NWFS broken on 2.4.3 -- someone removed WRITERAW

[Jeff V. Merkey]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:58:09AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 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);

Jens,

Bless you.  I'll code the fix, test it, and get it out.  

Jeff

> 
> Be a happy camper.
> 
> -- 
> Jens Axboe
> 
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