From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Artem Bityutskiy Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] introduce sys_syncfs to sync a single file system Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:29:55 +0200 Message-ID: <1300134595.2332.17.camel@koala> References: <201103111255.44979.arnd@arndb.de> <20110311235607.GB15853@elie> <9446ab1a2315c0d2476c30f8315a0503.squirrel@webmail.greenhost.nl> <20110312021001.GA16833@elie> <20110312173217.GA24981@kroah.com> <1e597aedd3d7825dcc0630b1cf2399fa.squirrel@webmail.greenhost.nl> <20110314131042.5a7fb32f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reply-To: dedekind1@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Indan Zupancic , Greg KH , Jonathan Nieder , Arnd Bergmann , Sage Weil , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Aneesh Kumar K. V" , linux-api@vger.kernel.org, mtk.manpages@gmail.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, hch@lst.de, l@jasper.es To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Received: from mail-ey0-f174.google.com ([209.85.215.174]:54942 "EHLO mail-ey0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751593Ab1CNUaD (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:30:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110314131042.5a7fb32f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 13:10 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > There might one day be a requirement to be able to initiate a > resource-management-style writeback against a whole filesystem. When > that happens, we'll regret not having added a "mode" argument to > sys_syncfs(). I think Indan is right about an additional argument which could be used for future extensions, what is the problem adding it? --=20 Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (=D0=91=D0=B8=D1=82=D1=8E=D1=86=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=B9 =D0=90= =D1=80=D1=82=D1=91=D0=BC) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html