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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:41:28 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] blkdev: flush disk cache on ->fsync
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On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 05:07:13PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 10 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Is anyone going to pick up this patch?
> 
> I can pick it up for .33. I think it looks good, but it's probably
> something we should add up front.

Given that it's impossible to get data to a raw block device reliably
without this I think it's .32 material.  Especially given how small
the patch is and how long it's been out there..