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Date:      Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:10:40 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        deeptech71 <deeptech71@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>
Subject:   Re: access to hard drives is "blocked" by writes to a flash drive
Message-ID:  <52961.1362319840@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <1362318887.1195.221.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
References:  <51323712.5000406@gmail.com> <20130303042043.GH286@server.rulingia.com> <1362317291.1195.216.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <52867.1362317749@critter.freebsd.dk> <1362318887.1195.221.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>

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In message <1362318887.1195.221.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>, Ian Lepore writes
:

>Hmmm, so the problem has been known and unfixed for 10 years.

It's hard to fix, because a lot of stuff has been tangled up
cyclically in the disk-I/O relevant layers.  The "umapped buf"
stuff which is (finally!) happening, is the path to fixing it.

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