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, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>