Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 11:55:41AM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote: >> It's acceptable. > > It's not because it will then also affect other reads going on at the > same time. OK, that part I was fuzzy on. I wasn't sure if they were preventing other reads/writes to the same file somehow. I should have mentioned that. Cheers, Jeff -- 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>