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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] Assign bdi in super_block
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:16:41 -0400
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On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 12:14 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Mon 14-09-09 20:36:54, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > No, that should work fine. NFS already works fine with the bdi flusher
> > threads, so you should just point it at that bdi.
>   But will it really work well? I mean if we sync the superblock on the
> client, it will sync only the private BDI. So it won't sync any directory
> inodes because they are on the default_backing_dev_info (NFS leaves
> sb->s_bdev at NULL).

All directory related operations (link, rename, create, ...) are fully
synchronous in NFS. There should be no need to set up anything to
synchronise directory inodes.

Cheers
  Trond