From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id n7LFZOx9178094 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:35:39 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:32:35 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/17] vfs: Introduce new helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode Message-ID: <20090821153235.GA5874@infradead.org> References: <1250697884-22288-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <1250697884-22288-8-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <20090819162638.GE6150@infradead.org> <20090820121531.GC16486@duck.novell.com> <20090820162729.GA24659@infradead.org> <20090821152339.GD3007@duck.novell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090821152339.GD3007@duck.novell.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Jan Kara Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, LKML , Joel Becker , Christoph Hellwig , Anton Altaparmakov , OGAWA Hirofumi , Evgeniy Polyakov , xfs@oss.sgi.com, ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 05:23:39PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > Hmm, I can imagine it would buy us something in two cases (but looking at > the code, neither is implemented in such a way that it would really help > us in any way): > 1) when an inode and it's data are stored in one block (e.g. OCFS2 or UDF) do > this. > In the first case we would wait for block with data to be written only to > submit it again because inode was still dirty. But we would not actually store in the pagecache or at least never writeback it via the pacache in that case, but always just write it as part of the inode. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs