Messages in this thread | | | From | Jeff Moyer <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] fs: Invalidate the cache for a parent block-device if fsync() is called for a partition | Date | Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:27:02 -0500 |
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Niels de Vos <ndevos@redhat.com> writes:
> Executing an fsync() on a file-descriptor of a partition flushes the > caches for that partition by calling blkdev_issue_flush(). However, it > seems that reading data through the parent device will still return the > old cached data.
What problem, exactly, are you trying to fix? Could you please post a reproducer?
Cheers, Jeff
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