tron@zhadum.org.uk (Matthias Scheler) writes:

>> Now guess what happens when you temporarily bypass softdep's ordering.
>Bad things(TM)

Why would you want to stop disk writes? The kernel can easily _read_
data (when it has free buffers) even when it pushes out dirty
buffers in a tight loop. The problem is that you don't have
free buffers because all are occupied by data that needs to
be written. Stopping the writes won't free any buffer.

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