Re: Copying to loop device hangs up everything

Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)
Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:57:54 -0200 (BRST)


On 18 Dec 2001, Momchil Velikov wrote:

> >>>>> "Marcelo" == Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> writes:
>
> Marcelo> Momchil,
>
> Marcelo> Your fix does not look right. We _have_ to sync pages at
> Marcelo> sync_page_buffers(), we cannot "ignore" them.
>
> Sure, we don't ignore them, we just don't _wait_ for them, because
> maybe _we_ are the one to write them.

What if we are not ?

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