Re: lastes sources don't include drop_cache option

[Holger Hoffstaette]

On Wed, 04 Dec 2013 00:13:27 -0800, Linda Walsh wrote:

 It was in opensuse up to and including their latest release opensuse 13.1.

Didn't know that.

 What reasoning?

(disagreeing with) the reasoning of not including the patch - sorry :)
I'm all in favor of the patch but it *is* rather unpretty/blunt code, and
ultimately it's the maintainer's decision.

Compared to no patch at all the nocache approach seems at least like an
improvement.

-h


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Re: lastes sources don't include drop_cache option

[Holger Hoffstaette]

On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 00:30:58 -0800, Linda A. Walsh wrote:

 Was there some reason that patch got dropped?

AFAIK it was never applied in the first place. I disagree with the
reasoning, but whatever. This just came up this morning on Gentoo:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475408

..and as I looked for solutions that don't require the patch I found:
https://github.com/Feh/nocache

This seems to work and is useful to other applications as well, if you can
live with the naive assumption that buffer cache behaviour is global to an
entire application/command.

-h


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