Re: Linux 2.6.29

[Jeff Garzik]

David Rees wrote:
> The *only* reason MythTV fsyncs (or fdatasyncs) the data to disk all
> the time is to keep a large amount of dirty pages from building up and
> then causing horrible latencies when that data starts getting flushed
> to disk.

sync_file_range() will definitely help that situation.

	Jeff


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