Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:09:46 -0400 | | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vfs: Fix sys_sync() and fsync_super() reliability |
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 03:07:24PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > Another thing I want to do in this area is sort out the meaning of > > write_super. I'd really prefer to have every filesystem implement > > ->sync_fs for actual data-integerity syncs, and only leave ->write_super > > for the periodic writeouts, as the current implementation is extrenly > > confusing and causes a lot of trouble for filesystems doing their own > > periodic sb writeback. > Yes, that would be nice but I guess it's a partly a separate issue > (and has to touch a lot of filesystems). I'll keep write_supers() call in > the next version of the patch so that this split isn't made harded by it.
Yeah, separate issue. We need to do this sync massaging in a couple of small steps..
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