Re: Unresponiveness of 2.4.16

Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolabs.com)
Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:56:11 -0700

On Nov 28, 2001 12:31 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> write-cluster.patch
> ext2 metadata prereading and various other hacks which
> prevent writes from stumbling over reads, and thus ruining
> write clustering. This patch is in the early prototype stage

Shouldn't the ext2_inode_preread() code use "ll_rw_block(READ_AHEAD,...)"
just to be proper?

Cheers, Andreas

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