Re: The INN/mmap bug

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 18 2000 - 09:16:22 EDT

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    On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Chris Mason wrote:

    > ReiserFS depends on the buffer head up to date flag being correct when it
    > is sent to get_block. When unpacking the tail, we have to know if the
    > packed data on disk should be copied over the data in the page.

    ??? Details, please. What the hell are you doing with buffer-heads for a
    piece of data that can be completely unaligned?

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