From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] fsync_range, was: Re: munmap, msync: synchronization Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 23:06:52 -0700 Message-ID: <20140425060652.GA30486@infradead.org> References: <5353A158.9050009@gmx.de> <5354F00E.8050609@gmail.com> <20140421181431.GA17125@infradead.org> <53557768.5070905@gmail.com> <20140421213418.GH30215@jl-vm1.vm.bytemark.co.uk> <20140422060320.GA21241@infradead.org> <20140422070421.GI30215@jl-vm1.vm.bytemark.co.uk> <20140422092837.GA6191@infradead.org> <20140424013435.GY15995@dastard> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Jamie Lokier , "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" , Heinrich Schuchardt , linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Theodore T'so , Linux-Fsdevel , Miklos Szeredi To: Dave Chinner Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140424013435.GY15995@dastard> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:34:35AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > Christoph, if this is going into the kernel, can you add support for > xfs_io and write a couple of xfstests to test it? I'm not > comfortable with adding new data integrity primitives to the kernel > without having robust validation infrastructure already in place for > it. It might also be worthwhile looking to extend Josef's > fsync-tester.c to be able to use ranged fsyncs so to test all the > various corner cases that we need to.... If we actually want to add it will obviously need test coverage. Seem like I can't really get people excited enough to make this more than a PoC so far, though. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html