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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/15] mkfs: don't treat files as though they are block devices
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 09:24:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131202172441.GF28630@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1385689430-10103-16-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>

>  void
>  platform_flush_device(int fd, dev_t device)
>  {
> -	if (major(device) != RAMDISK_MAJOR)
> +	struct stat64	st;
> +	if (major(device) == RAMDISK_MAJOR)
> +		return;
> +
> +	if (fstat64(fd, &st) < 0)
> +		return;
> +
> +	if (S_ISREG(st.st_mode))
> +		fsync(fd);
> +	else
>  		ioctl(fd, BLKFLSBUF, 0);
>  }

Given that fsync does the right thing for device on Linux aswell
I'd suggest we make this function call it all the time and get rid
of all the ramdisk magic.

Should probabbly be a a separate patch.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-02 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-29  1:43 [RFC, PATCH 00/15] mkfs: sanitise input parameters Dave Chinner
2013-11-29  1:43 ` [PATCH 01/15] xfsprogs: use common code for multi-disk detection Dave Chinner
2013-12-02 10:40   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-12-02 22:49     ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-29  1:43 ` [PATCH 02/15] mkfs: sanitise ftype parameter values Dave Chinner
2013-12-02 10:40   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-29  1:43 ` [PATCH 03/15] mkfs: Sanitise the superblock feature macros Dave Chinner
2013-12-02 10:43   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-12-02 22:50     ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-29  1:43 ` [PATCH 04/15] mkfs: validate all input values Dave Chinner
2013-12-02 17:04   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-12-02 23:12     ` Dave Chinner
2013-12-03  9:42       ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-12-11  4:27         ` Jeff Liu
2013-12-11 23:57           ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-29  1:43 ` [PATCH 05/15] mkfs: factor boolean option parsing Dave Chinner
2013-12-02 10:46   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-12-02 23:13     ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-29  1:43 ` [PATCH 06/15] mkfs: validate logarithmic parameters sanely Dave Chinner
2013-12-02 17:06   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-12-02 23:14     ` Dave Chinner
2013-12-03  1:34     ` Michael L. Semon
2013-11-29  1:43 ` [PATCH 07/15] mkfs: structify input parameter passing Dave Chinner
2013-12-02 17:11   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-12-02 23:16     ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-29  1:43 ` [PATCH 08/15] mkfs: getbool is redundant Dave Chinner
2013-12-02 17:12   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-29  1:43 ` [PATCH 09/15] mkfs: use getnum_checked for all ranged parameters Dave Chinner
2013-12-02 17:14   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-29  1:43 ` [PATCH 10/15] mkfs: add respecification detection to generic parsing Dave Chinner
2013-12-02 17:15   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-29  1:43 ` [PATCH 11/15] mkfs: table based parsing for converted parameters Dave Chinner
2013-12-02 17:17   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-29  1:43 ` [PATCH 12/15] mkfs: merge getnum Dave Chinner
2013-12-02 17:22   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-12-02 23:20     ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-29  1:43 ` [PATCH 13/15] mkfs: encode conflicts into parsing table Dave Chinner
2013-12-02 17:23   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-29  1:43 ` [PATCH 14/15] mkfs: add string options to generic parsing Dave Chinner
2013-11-29  1:43 ` [PATCH 15/15] mkfs: don't treat files as though they are block devices Dave Chinner
2013-12-02 17:24   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2013-12-02 23:21     ` Dave Chinner

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