Re: [PATCH] Support RAID on virtio devices, and others

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 10:37:01AM +0100, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> 
> We have a bug report in Debian[0] open that grub-probe is very slow due
> to the use of ioctl(BLKFLSBUF)
> A comment above it says this is needed due to a bug in the Linux kernel.
> Is there a safe way to check if this is still needed with a recent
> Kernel?
> This seems to be added 2003, so things could have changed now a bit.
> 
> [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508834

I think this is only an issue in very specific situations.

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