From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: exofs_file_fsync
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 12:33:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100531103349.GA12196@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C038FE5.8000504@panasas.com>
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 01:31:01PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> OK, I was just looking at that. thanks you saved me some digging.
> should I just open-code the generic_file_fsync minus the blocks
> thing then?
sync_mapping_buffers is a no-op for you so you can keep it.
The other difference is that you sync out the superblock at the
end of your fsync implementation. That is rather unusual, but I don't
know enough about exofs if you really need to update data in the
superblock to commit file data to disk.
> I'm busy with the truncate stuff, but I'll do this next.
> Do you need this ASAP?
I just noticed it while walking through the fsync implementations.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-31 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-31 10:09 exofs_file_fsync Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-31 10:23 ` exofs_file_fsync Boaz Harrosh
2010-05-31 10:27 ` exofs_file_fsync Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-31 10:31 ` exofs_file_fsync Boaz Harrosh
2010-05-31 10:33 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-05-31 13:43 ` exofs_file_fsync Boaz Harrosh
2010-05-31 13:46 ` exofs_file_fsync Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-01 10:05 ` exofs_file_fsync Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-01 10:04 ` exofs_file_fsync Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-01 15:29 ` exofs_file_fsync Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-01 15:30 ` [PATCH] exofs: exofs_file_fsync correctness Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-01 15:33 ` [osd-dev] " Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-01 15:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-01 15:40 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-01 15:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-01 16:10 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-01 16:11 ` [PATCH ver2] exofs: exofs_file_fsync and exofs_file_flush correctness Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-01 16:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-01 16:36 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-01 17:03 ` [PATCH ver3] " Boaz Harrosh
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