On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 03:48:36PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > OK, I don't exactly see why a sync_inode with appropriate flag could > not solve that problem. I'll take a bit more look through nfs and > xfs. Thanks...
We could also overload all inode operations into a single ioctl like method, but that doesn't make it a good design.