Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 7 Jan 2011 13:32:02 -0500 | | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | | Subject | Re: [patch 8/8] fs: add i_op->sync_inode |
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On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 01:30:47PM -0500, Ted Ts'o wrote: > > 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 like that solution; it might be one of the easier ways to maintain > backwards compatibility. Especially since (correct me if I am wrong) > the simpler file systems which always write out the inode in the case > of a non-blocking write_inode, say, like say the fat file system, are > immune from this specific problem, right?
Yes. Also one of the patches in Nick's series actually implements this already. Looks like we lost that fact when arguing about other things..
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