[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 4/7] sysv: don't flush page immediately for DIRSYNC directories

Matthew Wilcox willy at infradead.org
Sun Jan 8 21:19:22 UTC 2023


On Sun, Jan 08, 2023 at 05:56:42PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> We do not need to writeout modified directory blocks immediately when
> modifying them while the page is locked. It is enough to do the flush
> somewhat later which has the added benefit that inode times can be
> flushed as well. It also allows us to stop depending on
> write_one_page() function.

Similar concerns to the minix patch here ... missing assignments to
'err'.



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