On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>I don't think you _can_ trigger it as of now, as all the block stuff is
As now it can't trigger while compiling glibc. But ->f_op->read/write are
called w/o big kernel lock and block_read/write are not acquiring the big
kernel lock either so it can trigger while accessing directly
/dev/{sd*,hd*}.
I think what happens when it triggers is that some write could be lost.
Andrea
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