On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
