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Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 13:31:02 +0100 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> Cc: Phillip Susi <psusi@...ntu.com>, linux-man <linux-man@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@...il.com>, "Gregory P. Smith" <gps@...gle.com>, Zhu Yanhai <zhu.yanhai@...il.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] readahead.2: don't claim the call blocks until all data has been read On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 10:05:14AM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> However, it may block while it reads >> the filesystem metadata needed to locate the requested blocks. >> This occurs frequently with ext[234] on large files using indi??? >> rect blocks instead of extents, giving the appearence that the >> call blocks until the requested data has been read. >> >> Okay? > > The part above is something that should be in the BUGS section. Good call. Done. Thanks, Christoph. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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