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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 05:17:23PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> fsync_dev() is not needed for raw devices or swap.  It _is_ needed for
> file access.

then what's the difference between raw devices and swap.

And there's reason we should we avoid the fsync_dev with the raw devices
and swap.

I just found it an useless complication.

Andrea