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SubjectRe: [patch 8/8] fs: add i_op->sync_inode
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 02:29:34AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Btw, there's an easy way how we could get this right, in fact
> the write_inode in XFS is already trying to do it, it's just the
> caller not copying with it:
>
> - if we can't get locks for a non-blocking ->write_inode we return
> EAGAIN, and the callers sets the dirty bits again.

I just tried to implement this and noticed we're actually doing this
inside XFS - if we get our EAGAIN error from the lower level code
in ->write_inode we do a manual mark_inode_dirty_sync(). So as far
as XFS is concerned ->write_inode always pushes data into a state
where ->sync_fs writes it out, or if it was called with WB_SYNC_NONE
and couldn't get the locks redirties the inode, and thus is not affected
by the issue you mentioned. I think this is also a good model for
other filesystems to follow.


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