On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 01:55:17PM +0200, Petr Uzel wrote: > Hi all, > > SUSE-based distributions have the following patch for some time. More > info here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447036 > > From the Novell bugzilla: > <quote> > > I cannot see any justification for that sync call at all so I'd > > probably just remove it. Your > > patch is possibly safer so maybe it should be used as is. > </quote> > > So, does anybody know why/if the sync() is actually needed? It's not needed. The kernel performs a sync by itself. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
