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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] AFS: Implement basic file write support
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 12:07:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4815.1178708859@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070509034135.853ae84c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> set_page_dirty() will set I_DIRTY_PAGES only.  ie: the inode has dirty
> pagecache data.
> 
> To tell the VFS that the inode itself is dirty one needs to run
> mark_inode_dirty().

But what's the difference in this case?  I don't need to write the inode back
per se, and the inode attributes can be updated by the mechanism of data
storage.

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-09 11:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-08 19:43 [PATCH 1/3] AFS: Export a couple of core functions for AFS write support David Howells
2007-05-08 19:44 ` [PATCH 2/3] AFS: AFS fixups David Howells
2007-05-08 19:44 ` [PATCH 3/3] AFS: Implement basic file write support David Howells
2007-05-09  0:00   ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-09 10:25   ` David Howells
2007-05-09 10:41     ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-09 11:07     ` David Howells [this message]
2007-05-09 16:28       ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-09 23:42   ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-10  9:56   ` David Howells
2007-05-11  6:14     ` Nick Piggin

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