sync() takes minutes while erasing

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 20:59 +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> Thanks, this stop the complaints from the test team. They
> don't like to wait a few mins every time they delete an old install
> and reboot.

This is what the rest of us use 'flash_eraseall -j' for, btw :)

But I'll look into it. If we can do the erases from some other context
it would be nice. Although pdflush_operation() doesn't seem to give us
any way to _stop_ a pending call if we unmount.

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dwmw2