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To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Copying to loop device hangs up everything
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From: Momchil Velikov <velco@fadata.bg>
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>>>>> "Marcelo" == Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> writes:

Marcelo> Momchil, 

Marcelo> Your fix does not look right. We _have_ to sync pages at
Marcelo> sync_page_buffers(), we cannot "ignore" them.

Sure, we don't ignore them, we just don't _wait_ for them, because
maybe _we_ are the one to write them.  

Regards,
-velco
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