On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 09:48:35PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > Well, they're not exactly cheap (journaling filesystems have to force > transaction commits and wait for them) but that does not really matter. > The real problem is that to wait for IO completion you need some list of > inodes you want to wait for and you can currently get such list only from > superblock. All block device inodes sit on blockdev_superblock, we got rid of inodes without a superblock long time ago. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html