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Date:      Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:56:58 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
Cc:        s223560@studenti.ing.unipi.it, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: multiple pending filesystem requests for the same block ? 
Message-ID:  <79006.1122386218@phk.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Jul 2005 06:54:44 PDT." <20050726065444.A37735@xorpc.icir.org> 

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In message <20050726065444.A37735@xorpc.icir.org>, Luigi Rizzo writes:
>(context: SoC work on pluggable disk schedulers,
>	http://wikitest.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/Hybrid
>
>
>The doubt we have is the following:
>
>	can the filesystem code have multiple pending write requests for
>	the same disk block ?

If the filesystem does that, it will get no guarantee in which order
they are written.

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