Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:08:44 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Q: I/O to block devices |
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On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:39:34 +0200 "Ulrich Windl" <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:
> I'm surprised: To my knowledge I/O to block devices is synchronous (at least write > I thought)
Nope. But the kernel will sync the device on the final close.
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