From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] vfs: Make sys_sync writeout also block device inodes
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:30:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120622103041.GF14083@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120620200336.GF3435@quack.suse.cz>
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:03:36PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Hi Curt,
>
> On Wed 20-06-12 07:23:56, Curt Wohlgemuth wrote:
> > Was there ever a resolution for this patch and the series? I looked
> > for but found no ack/nack for V4 of your "Cleanup and improve sync"
> > patch series.
> >
> > We've been carrying a crappy hack/patch to sync all block device
> > inodes in order to allow lilo to not break, and it'd be nice to have a
> > real fix for it upstream.
> The patch set works, just I'm missing some final review and someone (Al?)
> has to pick it up and merge it. Anyway I plan to repost the series soon to
> hopefully get things moving again...
Please, rebase and send them my way.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-22 10:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-05 23:46 [PATCH 0/8 RESEND] Cleanup and improve sync (v4) Jan Kara
2012-01-05 23:46 ` [PATCH 1/8] vfs: Move noop_backing_dev_info check from sync into writeback Jan Kara
2012-01-05 23:46 ` [PATCH 2/8] quota: Split dquot_quota_sync() to writeback and cache flushing part Jan Kara
2012-01-05 23:46 ` [PATCH 3/8] quota: Move quota syncing to ->sync_fs method Jan Kara
2012-01-05 23:46 ` [PATCH 4/8] vfs: Reorder operations during sys_sync Jan Kara
2012-01-05 23:46 ` [PATCH 5/8] vfs: Create function for iterating over block devices Jan Kara
2012-01-05 23:46 ` [PATCH 6/8] vfs: Make sys_sync writeout also block device inodes Jan Kara
2012-06-20 14:23 ` Curt Wohlgemuth
2012-06-20 20:03 ` Jan Kara
2012-06-22 10:30 ` Al Viro [this message]
2012-07-03 14:47 ` Jan Kara
2012-01-05 23:46 ` [PATCH 7/8] vfs: Remove unnecessary flushing of block devices Jan Kara
2012-01-05 23:46 ` [PATCH 8/8] vfs: Avoid unnecessary WB_SYNC_NONE writeback during sys_sync and reorder sync passes Jan Kara
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-07-03 14:45 [PATCH 0/8 v4] Flush all block devices on sync(2) and cleanup the code Jan Kara
2012-07-03 14:45 ` [PATCH 6/8] vfs: Make sys_sync writeout also block device inodes Jan Kara
2012-07-17 6:27 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-07-20 2:21 ` Fengguang Wu
2011-11-09 17:44 [PATCH 0/8] Cleanup and improve sync (v4) Jan Kara
2011-11-09 17:45 ` [PATCH 6/8] vfs: Make sys_sync writeout also block device inodes Jan Kara
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