From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] raw: fsync method is now required
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 22:42:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100405204208.GA4100@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100405133902.082a6ef7.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 01:39:02PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> So if you run fsync() against a /dev/rawX fd you get -EINVAL? erk.
>
> > We have two options: fix it or remove the raw driver completely. I'm happy
> > to do either, the fact this has been broken for so long suggests it is
> > rarely used.
>
> Well. It shows that fsync() is rarely used.
The new O_SYNC implementation uses fsync, so O_SYNC users are also
affected now. Still shows that either one is relatively rarely used..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-05 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-04 0:45 [PATCH] raw: fsync method is now required Anton Blanchard
2010-04-05 20:39 ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-05 20:42 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-04-06 15:14 ` Jeff Moyer
2010-04-06 15:34 ` Jan Kara
2010-04-06 17:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
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