Re: Implementing writepage

David Woodhouse
2003-10-27T09:07:02Z

On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 11:52 +0300, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> I don't quite follow why. generic_commit_write() only marks buffers
> dirty. Actual IO is started by either ->writepages() called from within
> balance_dirty_pages() (or pdflush) or by ->writepage() called by VM
> scanner.

Charles isn't using generic_commit_write(); this is not a traditional
block-device-backed file system.

I strongly suspect his commit_write() is in fact synchronous.

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