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Stable pages

Posted May 13, 2011 20:06 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Stable pages by bazsi
Parent article: Stable pages

if the modified page isn't getting written out, you aren't getting the safety that you are looking for.


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Stable pages

Posted May 17, 2011 20:29 UTC (Tue) by bazsi (subscriber, #63084) [Link]

it gets written out eventually. it's a dirty page after all. even if the process exits.

the only thing to prevent that is an OS level crash.

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