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Hi, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> These days, I think we do the write-back only if we use an external clock 
> (NTP), so we probably _could_ just remove the synchronization at 
> read-time (removing it at write-time doesn't sound like a good idea).
> 
> Does anybody remember better?

No. ;-)   Do it.

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Matthias Urlichs