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Re: Memory management. (fwd)



On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

> [...]
> 
> That's right --- it's the old problem of buffering writes through the
> buffer cache and reads through the page cache.  Do you want me to reply
> to this to say we know about it?

I already did, and also said that we're working on it.
I even said that there probably would be patches in some
6 months, which is a bit pessimistic, considering the
fact that Eric wrote he has most of the code ready...

Rik.
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