diff -urN vm-ref/fs/buffer.c vm/fs/buffer.c
--- vm-ref/fs/buffer.c	Fri Mar 29 18:38:10 2002
+++ vm/fs/buffer.c	Fri Mar 29 18:39:38 2002
@@ -1040,8 +1040,10 @@
 
 		conditional_schedule();
 		bh = get_hash_table(dev, block, size);
-		if (bh)
+		if (bh) {
+			touch_buffer(bh);
 			return bh;
+		}
 
 		if (!grow_buffers(dev, block, size))
 			free_more_memory();
@@ -1204,7 +1206,6 @@
 	struct buffer_head * bh;
 
 	bh = getblk(dev, block, size);
-	touch_buffer(bh);
 	if (buffer_uptodate(bh))
 		return bh;
 	ll_rw_block(READ, 1, &bh);