Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:17:38 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch] `cp /dev/zero /tmp' (patch against 2.2.9) |
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On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > I'll merge in the new fsync code. I'm not sure I'll bother using the > inode page list: it doesn't deal with metadata, so we still need a > separate per-inode dirty buffer list anyway.
Please take a look at pre-2.3.7-7: I did the fsync() stuff for the page cache, and I'm pretty confident that we don't even need a per-inode dirty list with it.
It's untested, but looks ok, and I'll reboot and test shortly,
Linus
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