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Marco Gerards wrote:
> Vesa J=E4=E4skel=E4inen <chaac@nic.fi> writes:
>=20
>>> Please describe for me how I can trigger this bug. In other words, wh=
at
>>> commands can I run to unload a filesystem module while a file is open=
?
>> One way at least is to use font subsystem. That at least keeps file op=
en.
>>
>> See guide from Okuji's message how to create font file and:
>>
>> insmod font
>> font .../fontfile.pff
>=20
> Shouldn't the font file be opened, loaded into memory and closed?

Not at this time :)

Perhaps in the future...

But in reality, memory requirements for whole Unicode map is quite big.
So loading only parts that really matter, saves quite a lot.

If you look at the code there is TODO with similar commend "caching
needed" :)

If we think about my problem with fonts (or reading them), I didn't even
try to make workaround like caching everything. Instead I wanted to find
root cause for the reading problem. So this has slowed down a bit
development.