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Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 11:55:22 -0400
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: grub fails boot after update
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sync works perfectly fine on xfs.  Grub just doesn't understand what
sync means, and because of that it's buggy on all filesystems, just
with less a chance on others.   The fix is pretty simple and that is
stopping to try to access the filesystem with it's own driver through
the block device node.