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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Syncing single filesystem (slow USB writing)
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 04:20:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050729042000.48c40272.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200507291428.06903.arvidjaar@mail.ru>

Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> wrote:
>
> On Friday 29 July 2005 07:50, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > One idea how to improve situation - continue to mount with dsync (having
> > > basically old case) and do frequent sync of filesystem (this culd be
> > > started as HAL callout or whatever). Unfortunately, I could not find a
> > > way to request a sync (flush) of single mount point or block device. Have
> > > I missed something?
> >
> > It's trivial to do in-kernel but no, I'm afraid there isn't a userspace
> > interface for this.
> 
> apparently one should not ask such a question at 7 am. Any reason why 
> BLKFLSBUF does not suite?

That'll only write back data associated with /dev/hdXX (ie: filesystem
metadata) and not the data associated with all the files in the filesystem
which is mounted on /dev/hdXX.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-29 11:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-29  3:31 Syncing single filesystem (slow USB writing) Andrey Borzenkov
2005-07-29  3:50 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-29  4:12   ` Andrey Borzenkov
2005-07-29 10:28   ` Andrey Borzenkov
2005-07-29 11:20     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-07-29 11:44       ` Andrey Borzenkov
2005-07-29 17:52         ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-29  7:53 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-07-29 21:10 ` Chris Wedgwood

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