> Thanks for the detailed explanation! I understand your problem but I have to > say I find this flag like a hack to workaround particular XFS behavior and > the guarantees the new RWF_IOWAIT flag should provide are not very clear to > me. I've CCed Amir who's been dealing with similar issues with XFS at his I agree. I tried to make sense of what exactly this flags was supposed to guarantee and it's not really clear.
