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SubjectRe: ext2 + -osync: not as easy as it seems
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 03:08:04PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> It also guarentees that when you get a completion for that barrier
> write, it's on safe storage. Think of it as a flush-write-flush
> operation, in the presence of write back caching.
>

Is that true even if the barrier isn't attached to a write operation,
i.e., when using

blkdev_issue_flush(sb, NULL);

?

- Ted


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