Re: REQ_FLUSH, REQ_FUA and open/close of block devices

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 04:06:27PM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
> Should a close() of a dirty block device result in a REQ_FLUSH?

No, why would it?  That's what fsync is for.

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