Re: sync_blockdev in xfs_flush_device

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Re: sync_blockdev in xfs_flush_device_work

To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: sync_blockdev in xfs_flush_device_work
From:	David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>
Date:	Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:23:05 +1000
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On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 01:09:21PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> How is the sync_blockdev in the ENOSP path going to help it?  It only
> syncs the block device mapping which XFS doesn't use it at all.

Not really sure - it's probably a left over from when XFs was
using it, but still that makes no difference to ENOSPC flushing..

I think we can kill it...

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group

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