Re: Sync writeback still broken

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I dunno. Who even uses WB_SYNC_ALL? It's just "sync()" itself, isn't
> it? And "umount()", I guess. I didn't actually look at the code.

Hmm. The test-case Jan provided doesn't seem to do sync() or anything,
so either this is different from his original email issues, or there's
some external "sync()" going on unmentioned. Or something else
entirely?

                Linus
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