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    vfs: Make sys_sync writeout also block device inodes · a8c7176b
    Jan Kara authored
    In case block device does not have filesystem mounted on it, sys_sync will just
    ignore it and doesn't writeout its dirty pages. This is because writeback code
    avoids writing inodes from superblock without backing device and
    blockdev_superblock is such a superblock.  Since it's unexpected that sync
    doesn't writeout dirty data for block devices be nice to users and change the
    behavior to do so. So now we iterate over all block devices on blockdev_super
    instead of iterating over all superblocks when syncing block devices.
    Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    a8c7176b
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