linux-kernel - Re: Sync semantics.

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Message-ID: <20101116011606.GH22876@dastard>
Date:	Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:16:06 +1100
From:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sync semantics.

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 08:42:41AM +0100, Michal Svoboda wrote:
> 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?

The latter.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com
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