[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 1/2 v3] ocfs2: Flush drive's caches on fdatasync

[Joel Becker]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 08:32:45PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> When 'barrier' mount option is specified, we have to issue a cache flush
> during fdatasync(2). We have to do this even if inode doesn't have
> I_DIRTY_DATASYNC set because we still have to get written *data* to disk so
> that they are not lost in case of crash.
> 
> Acked-by: Tao Ma <tao.ma at oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>

        This patch is now in the merge-window branch of ocfs2.git

Joel

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