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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 23:59:48 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ketil Froyn <ketil-kernel@froyn.net>
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On 15 Jul 2002, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:

> Without calling fsync(), you *never* know when the data will hit the
> disk.

Doesn't bdflush ensure that data is written to disk within 30 seconds or 
some tunable number of seconds?

Ketil

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