From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 8/8] fs: add i_op->sync_inode
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 02:25:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110107072510.GB32308@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110107044836.GB4552@amd>
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 03:48:36PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> OK, I don't exactly see why a sync_inode with appropriate flag could
> not solve that problem. I'll take a bit more look through nfs and
> xfs. Thanks...
We could also overload all inode operations into a single ioctl like
method, but that doesn't make it a good design.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-07 7:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-18 1:46 [patch 0/8] Inode data integrity patches Nick Piggin
2010-12-18 1:46 ` [patch 1/8] fs: mark_inode_dirty barrier fix Nick Piggin
2010-12-18 1:46 ` [patch 2/8] fs: simple fsync race fix Nick Piggin
2010-12-18 1:46 ` [patch 3/8] fs: introduce inode writeback helpers Nick Piggin
2010-12-18 1:46 ` [patch 4/8] fs: preserve inode dirty bits on failed metadata writeback Nick Piggin
2010-12-18 1:46 ` [patch 5/8] fs: ext2 inode sync fix Nick Piggin
2011-01-07 19:08 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-12-18 1:46 ` [patch 6/8] fs: fsync optimisations Nick Piggin
2010-12-18 1:46 ` [patch 7/8] fs: fix or note I_DIRTY handling bugs in filesystems Nick Piggin
2010-12-29 15:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-03 15:03 ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-01-03 16:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-04 7:12 ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-04 14:22 ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-01-04 6:04 ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-04 6:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-04 7:52 ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-04 9:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-04 9:28 ` Nick Piggin
2010-12-18 1:46 ` [patch 8/8] fs: add i_op->sync_inode Nick Piggin
2010-12-29 15:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-04 6:27 ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-04 6:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-04 8:03 ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-04 8:31 ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-04 9:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-04 9:52 ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-06 20:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-07 4:48 ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-07 7:25 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-01-11 3:44 ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-04 9:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-04 9:49 ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-06 20:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-07 4:47 ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-07 7:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-07 7:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-07 13:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-07 18:30 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-01-07 18:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-07 19:06 ` Ted Ts'o
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