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Date:      Wed, 07 Nov 2018 20:20:15 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r340187 - head/sys/geom
Message-ID:  <1603.1541622015@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfrK-7vBETkhfQ9KkM4usrvjVh8wS_OZJiDmH5336DTsqQ@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <1541606248.52306.42.camel@freebsd.org> <201811071606.wA7G6mQW001639@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <CANCZdfrK-7vBETkhfQ9KkM4usrvjVh8wS_OZJiDmH5336DTsqQ@mail.gmail.com>

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In message <CANCZdfrK-7vBETkhfQ9KkM4usrvjVh8wS_OZJiDmH5336DTsqQ@mail.gmail=
.com>
, Warner Losh writes:

>BIO_FLUSH is primarily done to force ordering points, =


Originally BIO_FLUSH was defined the way it is, to make it possible
to flush an isolated specified range on providers which support that
so that fsync(2) could be implemented that way.

I can't remember the exact semantics of the two "magic" flush
operations (off=3D0,len=3D0) and (off=3Dend,len=3D0) but they were differe=
nt
from each other in some important aspect (Pawel?)

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