From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: exofs_file_fsync
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 12:27:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100531102706.GA11961@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C038E0D.3010400@panasas.com>
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 01:23:09PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On 05/31/2010 01:09 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Various odd things going on here:
> >
> > - no checks for I_DIRTY and friends, so it will always write out data
> > - filemap_write_and_wait is superflous, as it's already done by
> > the caller
> > - write_inode_now is overkill as it also writes out data, better use
> > sync_inode in a similar way to generic_file_fsync
>
> I'll look into it, but I think what I did here was to effectively
> "data sync" because I wanted a data sync on close and that was the only
> vector I already had that's called on close.
fsync won't get called at close time. ->release is called on last close
and ->flush on every close.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-31 10:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-31 10:09 exofs_file_fsync Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-31 10:23 ` exofs_file_fsync Boaz Harrosh
2010-05-31 10:27 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-05-31 10:31 ` exofs_file_fsync Boaz Harrosh
2010-05-31 10:33 ` exofs_file_fsync Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-31 13:43 ` exofs_file_fsync Boaz Harrosh
2010-05-31 13:46 ` exofs_file_fsync Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-01 10:05 ` exofs_file_fsync Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-01 10:04 ` exofs_file_fsync Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-01 15:29 ` exofs_file_fsync Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-01 15:30 ` [PATCH] exofs: exofs_file_fsync correctness Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-01 15:33 ` [osd-dev] " Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-01 15:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-01 15:40 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-01 15:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-01 16:10 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-01 16:11 ` [PATCH ver2] exofs: exofs_file_fsync and exofs_file_flush correctness Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-01 16:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-01 16:36 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-01 17:03 ` [PATCH ver3] " Boaz Harrosh
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