hm, fsync. Aside: why the heck do applications think that their data is so important that they need to fsync it all the time. I used to run a kernel on my laptop which had "return 0;" at the top of fsync() and fdatasync(). Most pleasurable. But wedging for 20 minutes is probably excessive punishment.
I most wonder, why vim fsyncs its swapfile regularly (blocking typing during that) and doesn't fsync the resulting file on :w :-/
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