From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, open-osd <osd-dev@open-osd.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] exofs: exofs_file_fsync correctness
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 17:34:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100601153414.GA15889@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C0527AF.6090502@panasas.com>
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 06:30:55PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> +/* exofs_file_fsync - flush the inode to disk
> + *
> + * @datasync is not used. All metadata is written in one place regardless.
> + * the writeout is synchronous
> + */
You still want to check it. It's really only need for checking the
various dirty flags in the inode, which you're still missing.
> + struct writeback_control wbc = {
> + .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
> + .nr_to_write = LONG_MAX,
By setting a nr_to_write you still write out data (at least in theory).
I'd recommend just copying the code from generic_file_fsync..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-01 15:34 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 ` exofs_file_fsync Christoph Hellwig
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 [this message]
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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