linux-kernel - Re: la la la la ... swappiness

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Message-ID: <457578E2.6040108@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:49:22 +0100
From:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
To:	Aucoin@...ston.RR.com
CC:	'Nick Piggin' <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	'Linus Torvalds' <torvalds@...l.org>,
	'Tim Schmielau' <tim@...sik3.uni-rostock.de>,
	'Andrew Morton' <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	clameter@....com
Subject: Re: la la la la ... swappiness

Aucoin wrote:

>> From: Rene Herman [mailto:rene.herman@...il.com] ftruncate there
>> and some similarity to a problem I once experienced
> 
> I can't honestly say I completely grasp the fundamentals of the issue
> you experienced but we are using ext3 with data=journal

Rereading I see ext3 isn't involved at all but perhaps the ftruncate 
does something similar here as it did on ext3? Andrew? It's probably 
best to igniore me, I also never quite understood what the problem on 
ext3 was. Just thought I'd share the hunch anyway...

Rene.

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