From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: REQ_FLUSH, REQ_FUA and open/close of block devices
Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 12:56:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DD94054.3010003@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110522104448.GA20241@infradead.org>
On 05/22/2011 06:44 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> And btw, I'd like to know what makes sync_file_range so tempting,
> even after I added documentation explaining why it's almost always
> wrong to use it to the man page.
Because Linus used it to describe how to stream data to disk, such as
what MythTV does. Example:
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0904.0/01076.html
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-22 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-19 15:06 REQ_FLUSH, REQ_FUA and open/close of block devices Alex Bligh
2011-05-20 12:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-21 8:42 ` Alex Bligh
2011-05-22 10:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-22 11:17 ` Alex Bligh
2011-05-22 11:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-22 12:00 ` Alex Bligh
2011-05-22 12:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-22 16:56 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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