> > > seconds for dd if=/dev/zero to flush all of its buffers.
> >
> > seconds sound cool. but does it mean per-process queues???
>
> I don't think so.  Write ordering should be preserved, but if a process
> tries to schedule a write when no buffers are available to it (but
> would be available to other processes) then it would block.  A process
> would need keep track of how many buffers it's using for I/O so that
> it would know to block when it's using too many.  A buffer would need to

looks really simple.


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