Re: Tailmerging - dragons sighted

[Daniel Phillips]

Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> 
> > This is getblk, except for pages.  It finds or sets up a page in a
> > mapping.  It puts buffers on the page if necessary but doesn't cause
> > any I/O action.
> 
> ... and it is absolutely meaningless for many filesystems. Try to define
> what it means for NFS, etc.

Could you clarify, please?  Does this mean that generic_file_read is
also meaningless for nfs?  (It's used in nfs.)

--
Daniel
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