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    SubjectRe: [Ext2-devel] Re: Possible Idea with filesystem buffering.
    Hugh Dickins wrote:
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    > On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
    > >
    > > This is actually really important --- writepage on its own cannot
    > > distinguish between requests to flush something to disk (eg. msync or
    > > fsync), and requests to evict dirty data from memory.
    >
    > Actually, that much can now be distinguished:
    > PageLaunder(page) when evicting from memory,
    > !PageLaunder(page) when msync or fsync.

    Nifty! Thanks for pointing this out.

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