Re: [PATCHES]

["Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On Fri, 28 May 1999 01:30:58 -0400 (EDT), Chuck Lever <cel@monkey.org> said:

> On Fri, 28 May 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>> Fixed patch for 2.2.9 is at
>> 
>> ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/misc/fsync-2.2.9-a.diff

> oops... one more thing.  invalidate_buffers() and set_blocksize() both
> need to call remove_inode_queue() for each reclaimed buffer, 

Quite right --- done.  I've now checked that there aren't any other
places where we clear BH_Dirty.  Updated patch in the usual place.

> and create_buffers() should set b_inode to NULL on all the new buffers
> on a page, for cleanliness.  IMHO.

New buffer_heads are preinitialised to all-zeros anyway (search buffer.c
for "memset").

--Stephen
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