access to hard drives is "blocked" by writes to a flash drive

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <1362318887.1195.221.camel at 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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