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From: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
To: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] f2fs: report readonly status in ->fsync
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 07:32:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151226063258.GA4641@schmorp.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <016601d13e33$0ecdfd50$2c69f7f0$@samsung.com>

On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 06:07:25PM +0800, Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com> wrote:
> Report readonly status of filesystem during fsync.

If this means that fsync returns EROFS when used on a file on a read-only
filesystem., then this looks buggy - EROFS is not documented for
fsync (only as "fd is bound to a special file which does not support
synchronization") for this condition, and I don't think other filesystems
do that (just tried xfs).

It also doesn't quite make sense - fsync should only fail when the file
couldn't be synced, but in most (probably all) cases, the file is already
synchronised, otherwise the filesystem shouldn't be RO.

I only looked at the diff, so if I missed the context and my reasoning
doesn't apply, forgive and ignore me :)

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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-24 10:07 [PATCH 3/5] f2fs: report readonly status in ->fsync Chao Yu
2015-12-26  6:32 ` Marc Lehmann [this message]
2015-12-28  9:59   ` Chao Yu
2015-12-28 22:43     ` Jaegeuk Kim
2015-12-29  6:21       ` Chao Yu
2015-12-30  0:32         ` Jaegeuk Kim
2015-12-30  6:46           ` Chao Yu

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