From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Cc: tytso@mit.edu, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: sync the directory inode in ext4_sync_parent()
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:46:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D9B717F.3010300@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTin2VdByS23f0Gg-m77wUr3RVYgkiQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 4/5/11 12:43 PM, Curt Wohlgemuth wrote:
> Well, you could argue that a failure to sync the parent shouldn't
> cause the inode's fsync() to fail, but I probably wouldn't :-) . I'll
> resend a patch that implements this.
>
> Thanks,
> Curt
It might be a valid argument, since we're doing it "just to be nice" - but if you're getting EIOs you'd probably rather know sooner than later...
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-05 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-05 19:27 [PATCH] ext4: sync the directory inode in ext4_sync_parent() Curt Wohlgemuth
2011-04-05 19:35 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-04-05 19:43 ` Curt Wohlgemuth
2011-04-05 19:46 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
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2011-04-05 23:24 Curt Wohlgemuth
2011-04-06 21:01 ` Ted Ts'o
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