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[Xen-devel] Re: [patch] xen-blkback: sync I/O after backend disconnected

To: Joe Jin <joe.jin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch] xen-blkback: sync I/O after backend disconnected
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:46:10 -0400
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On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:55:02PM +0800, Joe Jin wrote:
> When backend disconnect, sync IO requests to the disk.

Care to explain why?

Also you'll just need a sync_blockdev, fsync_bdev does far to many
things that don't make any sense when you don't have a file system
mounted on a device.


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