From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] QEMU: fsync AIO writes on
	flush request
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:36:28 -0300
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