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From: "Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy" <grisha@ispol.com>
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Subject: soft-updates on a file-backed md (vn) device?
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Is there any benefit (reduced IO) to enabling soft-updates on a
file-backed md device (formerly vn), even though the filesystem on which
the backing file lives already has it enabled?

Thanks for any comments!

Grisha