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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>,
	open-osd mailing-list <osd-dev@open-osd.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] exofs: Avoid using file_fsync()
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:21:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A3682FC.6010000@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090615135044.GA2553@infradead.org>

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 04:31:01PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>> +	ret = write_inode_now(inode, 0);
> 
> You shouldn't need a write_inode_now, but rather just a similar
> sync_inode call as in ext2 or the new simple_fsync as data was
> already written by the VFS.

And then there is the issue of needing to flush the storage device, 
otherwise fsync(2) does not provide relevant guarantees...

	Jeff





  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-15 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-15 13:31 [PATCH] exofs: Avoid using file_fsync() Boaz Harrosh
2009-06-15 13:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-15 14:30   ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-06-15 16:52   ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-06-15 17:07     ` [PATCH version 2] " Boaz Harrosh
2009-06-15 17:21   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2009-06-15 17:23     ` [PATCH] " Boaz Harrosh

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