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From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 13:57:59 +0100
Subject: [LTP] [PATCH COMMITTED] tst_device: do sync() before reading
 test block device stat file
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Hi!
> To avoid FS deferred IO metadata/cache interferes test result, so we
> do sync simply before the tst_dev_bytes_written invocation.

Can we do fsync() on the fd instead of full sync()? That should be
slightly faster.

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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz