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On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, David Lang wrote:

> note that issuing a fsync should change all pending writes to 'syncronous'
> as should writes to any partition mounted with the sync option, or writes
> to a directory with the S flag set.

Exactly.  This is nasty with our current data structures;
probably not something to do during the current code slush.

Rik
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