Mikulas Patocka wrote: > That is possible ... you must also make sure that you do not hold an > important semaphore while waiting for some removable device (auditing VFS > for this will be a bit harder...) If any filesystem is holding any _global_ semaphores while waiting for an I/O to complete - that's a major bug already. Activity which may take a long time due to slow I/O on one filesystem shouldn't block activity on other, unrelated filesystems, apart from global resource competition such as numbers of dirty pages... -- Jamie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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