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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] loop.c to use write ops for fs requiring special
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:13:53 -0800
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Robert S Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 10:16 +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> > It is simply that it is faster on all file systems that can use 
> > prepare_write/commit_write and the "performance hungry" would have 
> > complained if it were to be removed.
> (snip)
> > 	Anton
> 
> Having heard no objections to my loop.c patch, when can I expect it to
> be integrated into the 2.6 kernel?
> 

When we've remembered what Al's statement meant in
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=102129995600002&r=1&w=2

I knew at the time, but I've forgotten.  Maybe the issue went away..