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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
