[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 07/17] vfs: Introduce new helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode
Jan Kara
jack at suse.cz
Thu Aug 20 05:15:36 PDT 2009
On Wed 19-08-09 12:26:38, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Looks good to me. Eventually we should use those SYNC_ flags also all
> through the fsync codepath, but I'll see if I can incorporate that in my
> planned fsync rewrite.
Yes, I thought I'll leave that for later. BTW it should be fairly easy to
teach generic_sync_file() to do fdatawait() before calling ->fsync() if the
filesystem sets some flag in inode->i_mapping (or somewhere else) as is
needed for XFS, btrfs, etc.
Honza
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Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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