Re: Sync semantics.

From: Dave Chinner
Date: Mon Nov 15 2010 - 20:16:16 EST


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.
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