Re: [PATCH]: reiser4 [5/8] export remove_from_page_cache()

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 08:04:40PM +0300, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> Interesting. But things like ->vm_writeback() and friends will go
> directly to the page bypassing metapage wrapper, right?

Yes.

> JFS checks that
> page is still "live" on each low-level VM call?

Well, if the exntent in question doesn't exist anymore get_block()
will return a failure.  In practice that won't happen as those
pages still kept around are never dirty.