Re: triggering do_writepages

["girish" <girishc@india.hp.com>]

Hi,
  writepage is used when ever there is pressure for memory from VM system
and for mmaped files. I guess  writepage need not be triggered explictly. If
you want to add a functionaly for a writepage you can stack it at writepage,
which will be called implicitly


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kapish K" <kapish@ureach.com>
To: <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 12:29 PM
Subject: triggering do_writepages


>
> Hello,
>   I have a ( possibly simple ) question on
> how to trigger a do-writepages to get
> called, for a particular filesystem, on
> which I am issuing write calls. Any code
> that I put into the generic_file_write code
> ( around prepare_write or commit_write )
> gets triggered when a write is issues, but I
> don't seem to be getting do_writepages
> invoked for that filesystem ( when I check
> the sb pointer for my particular filesystem ).
> Am I missing something basic in here?
> Any pointers will be most helpful
> Thanks in advance
>
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