Re: REQ_FLUSH, REQ_FUA and open/close of block devices

[Jeff Garzik]

On 05/22/2011 06:44 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> And btw, I'd like to know what makes sync_file_range so tempting,
> even after I added documentation explaining why it's almost always
> wrong to use it to the man page.

Because Linus used it to describe how to stream data to disk, such as 
what MythTV does.  Example: 
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0904.0/01076.html

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