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Subject: Re: [11/36] Use page_cache_xxx in fs/buffer.c
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:03:41 -0700 (PDT)
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On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Jens Axboe wrote:

> > So if we try to push a too large buffer down with submit_bh() we get a 
> > failure.
> 
> Only partly, you may be violating a number of other restrictions (size
> is many things, not just length of the data).

Could you be more specific?