From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] AFS: Implement basic file write support
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 12:07:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4815.1178708859@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070509034135.853ae84c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> set_page_dirty() will set I_DIRTY_PAGES only. ie: the inode has dirty
> pagecache data.
>
> To tell the VFS that the inode itself is dirty one needs to run
> mark_inode_dirty().
But what's the difference in this case? I don't need to write the inode back
per se, and the inode attributes can be updated by the mechanism of data
storage.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-09 11:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-08 19:43 [PATCH 1/3] AFS: Export a couple of core functions for AFS write support David Howells
2007-05-08 19:44 ` [PATCH 2/3] AFS: AFS fixups David Howells
2007-05-08 19:44 ` [PATCH 3/3] AFS: Implement basic file write support David Howells
2007-05-09 0:00 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-09 10:25 ` David Howells
2007-05-09 10:41 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-09 11:07 ` David Howells [this message]
2007-05-09 16:28 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-09 23:42 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-10 9:56 ` David Howells
2007-05-11 6:14 ` Nick Piggin
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