Re: [patch] sys_sync livelock fix

Mike Fedyk (mfedyk@matchmail.com)
Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:59:47 -0800


On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 01:49:03AM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> Dangerous advocacy of the broken SuS semantics for sync, has to be stamped
> out before it spreads ;-)

Daniel,

You seem to be taking both sides of this argument.

Do you agree that sync should be changed to a checkpoint so that doesn't
block for dirty data created *after* sync was called?
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