On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:41:09PM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> > Is is it simply that the read will block indefinitely waiting for the
> > write to happen, with no way to cause the delayed-write queue to be
> > flushed?
> 
> yes.

Why would these reads be generated?  If the write has not completed, is
it not the case that the page must still be dirty, and should thus still
be in the cache?

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