Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.5.59-mm5 | From | Alex Tomas <> | Date | 24 Jan 2003 14:23:58 +0300 |
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>>>>> Andrew Morton (AM) writes:
AM> But writes are completely different. There is no dependency AM> between them and at any point in time we know where on-disk a lot AM> of writes will be placed. We don't know that for reads, which is AM> why we need to twiddle thumbs until the application or filesystem AM> makes up its mind.
it's significant that application doesn't want to wait read completion long and doesn't wait for write completion in most cases.
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