Re: Poor floppy performance in kernel 2.4.10

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Mon, 22 Oct 2001 06:06:55 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> too). So I believe in the long run we must implement a whitelist that
> tells us when to trust the media change detection, and always trim the
> cache during blkdev_open or during rmmod as I also suggested during
> 2.3.x when blkdev_close was changed to do the unconditional

I think that I have a correct fix for that, but I'll need to sort
some devfs-related unpleasantness first...

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