On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> That's maybe wrong - if there are a decent number of pages
> under writeback then we should be able to just wait it out.
> But it gets tricky with the loop driver...
I wonder if it is possible to exhaust the mempool with
the loop driver requests before getting around to the
requests to the underlying block device(s)...
regards,
Rik
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