linux-kernel - Re: Sync semantics.

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Message-ID: <20101115074241.GH16758@myhost.felk.cvut.cz>
Date:	Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:42:41 +0100
From:	Michal Svoboda <michal.svoboda@...nts.felk.cvut.cz>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sync semantics.

Dave Chinner wrote:
> Depending on the kernel, sync will keep writing if you keep
> dirtying. This should be mostly fixed in 2.6.36....

Is that a "we hope that it is so but we are not sure" kind of "mostly",
or a "there are known cases when this is not true" one?

Michal Svoboda

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