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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 18:16:36 +0000
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: ancient block_dev patch
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On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 04:41:54PM +0000, davej@codemonkey.org.uk wrote:
> Andrew,
>  What became of this patch ? Is it needed ?

It's not needed but a nice speedup for certain loads.  IIRC one of them
was INN directly using blockdevices.