If it's just a write, the application won't have to wait
(but many writes are actually read-modify-write,
to update a date/time stamp or whatever).
..
> Yes, they do. But on IDE-only systems this is more than annoying.
> Would it be hard to implement a thread/task/process that writes
> back data to disk? I guess this would be the logical consequence.
It's called kflushd, and it already exists.
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