On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Marty Scholes wrote:
If you think about it, this is far more sane than flushing to disk every time the write() system call is used.
Yes, it dramatically diminishes the number of copy-on-write writes and improves the pool layout efficiency. It also saves energy.
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