Re: Fix SWSUSP & !SWAP

H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-25T04:21:51Z

Andreas Dilger wrote:
>
> This "supersync" already exists, and it is supported by all of the
> journaling filesystems for LVM snapshots. This is the VFS method
> write_super_lockfs in the ext3/reiserfs/XFS/JFS super_operations.
> Not only does it sync the dirty data to disk, but it also forces
> the journal to be empty and marks the filesystem clean, so that it
> can be snapshotted and read-only mounted (basically equivalent to
> unmounting the filesystem).
>
> Unfortunately, even though the filesystems themselves have supported
> this VFS method for a long time, the actual code that calls these
> methods (sync_super_lockfs() and unlockfs()) are still only available
> as a patch from LVM. The LVM/reiserfs folks have talked about submitting
> it to Marcelo for a long time now, but apparently still haven't done so.
>

I really think this should be made available. Perhaps we should have a
sync1() system call which takes a flag set. Then we could have
sync1(SYNC_FLUSH_JOURNALS);

-hpa