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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: reiser4 metas/bmap problem
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 00:41:40 -0700
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To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Cc: Matt Stegman <matts@ksu.edu>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com, vs <vs@thebsh.namesys.com>

Andreas Dilger wrote:

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>
>The ext3_bmap() function flushes all file data to disk when called, and it
>would be prudent to do the same with reiser4, since bmap users tend to be
>important and not speed critical (e.g. lilo) and failing to do so can mean
>not booting later.
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Interesting point.  vs, please comment.