Re: [PATCH 0/16] Make O_SYNC handling use standard syncing path (version 4)

Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-02T14:16:47Z

On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 03:59:10PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Hi,
>
> here is a new version of my O_SYNC cleanup patches. There are two minor
> changes since last time. XFS now uses filemap_write_and_wait() as Christoph
> asked

The XFS tree now does this already, Idid it as part of the XFS-internal
fsync/O_SYNC consolidation. I'll look into fixing the data writeout
stuff ontop of you series, and after that XFS can use the generic
helper, too.

> If noone objects, I think the patch series is ready to be put in linux-next.

I'll look through it, but in general the sooner we have this in -next,
the better.