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From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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Subject: Re: Why IDE is bad
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 23:35:37 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <199503230449.UAA02420@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Mar 22, 95 08:49:37 pm
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>    It should do what the manual page says it does, which is to force all I/O
> to the filesystem to be done asynchronously.

Um, all I/O to the file system is already done asynchronously. It's got
internal sequencing of metadata but that shouldn't be visible to the
process.