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, 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>