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DateWed, 12 Oct 2005 18:04:34 +0900
From"Machida, Hiroyuki" <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] miss-sync changes on attributes (Re: [PATCH 2/2][FAT] miss-sync issues on sync mount (miss-sync on utime))

Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Machida, Hiroyuki" <machida@sm.sony.co.jp> wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>>OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
>>
>>>Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>However there's not much point in writing a brand-new function when
>>>>write_inode_now() almost does the right thing.  We can share the
>>>>implementation within fs-writeback.c.
>>>
>>>
>>>Indeed. We use the generic_osync_inode() for it?
>>
>>Please let me confirm.
>>Using generic_osync_inode(inode, NULL, OSYNC_INODE) instaed of
>>sync_inode_wodata(inode) is peferable for changes on fs/open.c,
>>even it would write data. Is it correct?
>>
> 
> 
> I don't know.  It depends on what you're actually trying to do, and I don't
> recall anyone having described that!

I'm just little confused, because I realized generic_osync_inode(,,OSYNC_INODE)
calls sync_inode_now(), however Ogawasa-san pointed out sync_inode_now() which
my first patch used is writing data page.


-- 
Hiroyuki Machida		machida@sm.sony.co.jp		
SSW Dept. HENC, Sony Corp.

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