On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 12:22:06AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > You don't want e.g. to have allocation request triggering an attempt to write > a dirty page on a shared mapping of a file from your fs while you are holding > a mutex that would block that attempt *and* waiting for a allocation to > succeed. Unless something changed very recently there is no writeback in orangefs. It's all non-cached I/O straight on to the server, with readpage only there for read-only mmaps (for executable I suspect). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html