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@@ -25,3 +25,15 @@ really waits for all I/Os, which basically means strictly serializing
file removals: remove one file, wait for the disk to have done it
(~10ms), remove the next one, etc. I guess this is for safety reasons
against crashes, but isn't the sync option there for such kind of
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+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-07-23
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+ <antrik> youpi: hm... async deletion does have one downside: I just removed
+ something to make space, and retried the other command immediately
+ afterwards, and it still said "no space left on device"... a few seconds
+ later (after the next regular sync I suppose?) it worked
+ <youpi> well, that's sorta expected, yes
+ <youpi> we get the same on Linux
+ <youpi> Mmm, on second thought, I'm not sure how that can happen
+ <youpi> the asynchronous thing is for disk writes, not cache writes