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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: pass exact type of data dirties to ->dirty_inode
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 11:59:06 +0100
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On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 06:53:02AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Tell the filesystem if we just updated timestamp (I_DIRTY_SYNC) or
> anything else, so that the filesystem can track internally if it
> needs to push out a transaction for fdatasync or not.
> 
> This is just the prototype change with no user for it yet.  I plan
> to push large XFS changes for the next merge window, and getting
> this trivial infrastructure in this window would help a lot to avoid
> tree interdependencies.

*nod*

Applied.