On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:07:41AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > To write the pages out it effectively does ->prepare_write, > ->commit_write, and then ->writepage. > I'm not sure that prepare/commit is needed, but they don't seem to be > the problem. writepage is. That's a bit weird. Typically you have two separate callpaths, non-page-aligned (prepare_write + commit_write) or writepage(s). Not both. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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