fsync() blocks disk in test4 (since linux 0.1?)

From: Lawrence Manning (lawrence@aslak.demon.co.uk)
Date: Sat Jul 15 2000 - 05:59:42 EST


Pine is a nice way to show this. Closing a large mailbox will block
access to the disk for the duration of the fsync call.

Any comments? Besides go away, we know.... I'm wondering why it works
like.

Lawrence

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