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SubjectRe: 2.6.29 -mm merge plans
On Wed 2009-01-07 03:57:25, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > sys_sync B which is invoked *after* sys_sync caller A should not
> > return before A. If you didn't have a global lock, they'd tend to
> > block one another's pages anyway. I think it's OK.
>
> It means that you cannot reboot because reboot does sync.
> What happens when the sync gets stuck somewhere on a really
> slow device?

And what do you propose? Silently corrupt data on the slow device?
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