ext2 caches

2000-09-29 Thread Frederic Magniette
Hi, We would like to do some operations on a ext2 disk while it is mounted read-only. The problem is that our operations have no effects because everithing is cached. Is it possible to shrink all the caches, especially the superblock caches and to reload the changes? We used prune_dcache (kernel 2

Re: The case for a standard kernel debugger

2000-09-14 Thread Frederic Magniette
Marco Colombo wrote: > > > 2) apply tight filters on what people produce (patches, features) not on >how they produce. If Linus is right (and in the end I believe it), >'debugger people' will produce low quality patches (the ones that fix >the syntoms not the problems), and those patc