On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 01:33:32PM +0000, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > Have I missed something in this > reasoning, Mikulas? Ah - counter-example: mmap? So sync might indeed be required to block on the filesystem iff there are newly-dirtied pages. Alasdair -- 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