From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/9] writeback data integrity and other fixes (take 3)
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:22:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081029122234.GE846@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081029103029.GC5953@wotan.suse.de>
Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:44:17AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:21:43AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > Please do.
> >
> > Well, there's one stumling block I haven't made progress on yet:
> >
> > I've changed the prototype of ->fsync to lose the dentry as we should
> > always have a valid file struct. Except that nfsd doesn't on
> > directories. So I either need to fake up a file there, or bail out
> > and add a ->dir_sync export operation that needs just a dentry.
>
> OK. I don't know much about hthat code, but I would think nfsd
> should look as close to the syscall layer as possible. I guess
> there must be something prohibitive (some protocol semantics?).
>
> Is there anything that particularly makes it a file operation
> as opposed to an inode operation?
In principle, is fsync() required to flush all dirty data written
through any file descriptor ever, or just dirty data written through
the file descriptor used for fsync()?
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-29 12:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-28 14:47 [patch 0/9] writeback data integrity and other fixes (take 3) npiggin
2008-10-28 14:47 ` [patch 1/9] mm: write_cache_pages cyclic fix npiggin
2008-10-29 0:24 ` [patch 1.1/9] mm: write_cache_pages cyclic fix fix Nick Piggin
2008-10-28 14:47 ` [patch 2/9] mm: write_cache_pages early loop termination npiggin
2008-10-28 14:47 ` [patch 3/9] mm: write_cache_pages writepage error fix npiggin
2008-10-28 14:47 ` [patch 4/9] mm: write_cache_pages integrity fix npiggin
2008-10-28 14:47 ` [patch 5/9] mm: write_cache_pages cleanups npiggin
2008-10-28 14:47 ` [patch 6/9] mm: write_cache_pages optimise page cleaning npiggin
2008-10-28 14:47 ` [patch 7/9] mm: write_cache_pages terminate quickly npiggin
2008-10-30 23:07 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-31 7:29 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-28 14:47 ` [patch 8/9] mm: write_cache_pages more " npiggin
2008-10-28 14:47 ` [patch 9/9] mm: do_sync_mapping_range integrity fix npiggin
2008-10-30 23:13 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-31 9:16 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-31 10:04 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-31 10:53 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-31 20:03 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-10-31 14:10 ` Chris Mason
2008-10-31 14:30 ` steve
2008-10-31 15:02 ` Chris Mason
2008-11-01 8:04 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-28 15:39 ` [patch 0/9] writeback data integrity and other fixes (take 3) Nick Piggin
2008-10-28 22:27 ` Dave Chinner
2008-10-29 0:04 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-29 0:16 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-29 3:16 ` Dave Chinner
2008-10-29 3:26 ` Dave Chinner
2008-10-29 4:11 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-29 4:57 ` Dave Chinner
2008-10-29 5:06 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-29 9:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-29 21:42 ` Dave Chinner
2008-10-29 21:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-29 21:53 ` Dave Chinner
2008-10-29 4:00 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-29 5:27 ` Dave Chinner
2008-10-29 9:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-29 9:21 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-29 9:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-29 10:30 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-29 12:22 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
[not found] ` <20081029122234.GE846-yetKDKU6eevNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-29 13:32 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-10-29 14:56 ` Chris Mason
[not found] ` <1225292196.6448.263.camel-cGoWVVl3WGUrkklhUoBCrlaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-30 2:16 ` Nick Piggin
[not found] ` <20081030021601.GF18041-B4tOwbsTzaBolqkO4TVVkw@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-30 12:51 ` jim owens
2008-10-30 13:41 ` Jim Rees
2008-10-29 21:43 ` Dave Chinner
2008-10-29 8:51 ` Dave Chinner
2008-10-28 23:14 ` Dave Chinner
2008-10-28 23:57 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-29 0:05 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-29 0:10 ` Nick Piggin
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