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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:57:54 -0200 (BRST)
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
To: Momchil Velikov <velco@fadata.bg>
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Subject: Re: Copying to loop device hangs up everything
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On 18 Dec 2001, Momchil Velikov wrote:

> >>>>> "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.  

What if we are not ? 

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