Re: unlinkd <-> async-io

From: Chris Wedgwood <chris@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 13:22:48 +1200

On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 12:09:11AM +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> Hmm.. what about the race condition when the swap file is reused
> before unlind or async-io unlinks the file? Is this dealt with?

Yeah, that was my next question.

It seems to me, the if a cache is really busy, and it starts expirey
data off the end, this has a real possibility of occurring, more so
when cache_low and cache_hi are quite far apart (5% or so).

-Chris
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