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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 20:24:11 +0200 (CEST)
From: Karl Pitrich <pit@root.at>
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Subject: Re: 100% sync block device on 2.2 ?
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On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, lk@Aniela.EU.ORG wrote:

>
> while :; do sync ; done
>
>
> and everything should be in sync :)

sync does not call fsync_dev(), nor it calls this flush ioctl i
implemented in my driver.
sync seems just to sync the vfs.

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