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Andrew Morton (AM) writes:

 AM> But writes are completely different.  There is no dependency
 AM> between them and at any point in time we know where on-disk a lot
 AM> of writes will be placed.  We don't know that for reads, which is
 AM> why we need to twiddle thumbs until the application or filesystem
 AM> makes up its mind.


it's significant that application doesn't want to wait read completion
long and doesn't wait for write completion in most cases.



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