linux-kernel - Re: ntfs: remove unnecessary PG_uptodate check from ntfs

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Date:	Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:13:05 +0300 (EEST)
From:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...Helsinki.FI>
To:	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@....ac.uk>
cc:	aia21@...tab.net, akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ntfs: remove unnecessary PG_uptodate check from ntfs_readpage

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> Please do not apply this patch or you will see metadata corruption on 
> NTFS.
> 
> Pekka, given there is a comment saying why this check is necessary, I 
> really do not understand how you can claim that it is not...

Sorry Anton, that's just me being confused, I guess... I don't see you 
dropping page lock in ntfs_writepage so how does that happen then? Thanks.

					Pekka
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