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Re: file corruption with arla
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Magnus Ahltorp)
Tue Oct 6 22:07:52 1998
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To: Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org>
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Subject: Re: file corruption with arla
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From: Magnus Ahltorp <map@stacken.kth.se>
Date: 07 Oct 1998 03:58:44 +0200
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> > This is due to the caching done in the Linux 2.0 xfs module. Killing
> > arlad should empty the cache, and thus release all refcounts on the
> > inodes.
>
> It doesn't always; I started tracking it about a month ago and then got
> sidetracked.
I know it doesn't; the keyword here is "should". Since run very few
machines with Linux 2.0, I don't do the day-to-day testing with the
Linux 2.0 xfs. Quite a few of you people out there seem to run it
though, and your input it very valuable.
/Magnus
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