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Subject: Re: [patch 1/13] minimal rmap
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
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On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 10:57, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 July 2002 07:29, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 11: The nightly updatedb run is still evicting everything.
> 
> That is not a problem with rmap per se, it's a result of not properly 
> handling streaming IO.  I don't think you want to get bogged down in this 
> detail at the moment, it will only distract from the real issues.  My 
> recommendation is to just pretend for the time being that this is correct 
> behaviour.

A good argument for an O_STREAM... various semantics we can modify for
it.

	Robert Love