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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] deadlock with suspend and quotas
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:48:34 +0000
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On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 01:33:32PM +0000, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> Have I missed something in this
> reasoning, Mikulas?
 
Ah - counter-example: mmap?
So sync might indeed be required to block on the filesystem iff there
are newly-dirtied pages.

Alasdair