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From: "Keith Ansell" <keitha@edp.fastfreenet.com>
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Subject: bdflush flushing memory mapped pages. 
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 20:20:18 +0100
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help

My application uses SHARED memory mapping files for file I/O, and we have
observed
that Linux does not flush dirty pages to disk until munmap or msync are
called.

I would like to know are there any development plans which would address
this issue or
if there is a version of bdflush which flushes write required pages (dirty
pages) to disk?

Regards
        Keith Ansell.