Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964817AbVIOOBF (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:01:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964960AbVIOOBF (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:01:05 -0400 Received: from NS6.Sony.CO.JP ([137.153.0.32]:43445 "EHLO ns6.sony.co.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964817AbVIOOBE (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:01:04 -0400 Message-ID: <43297E1A.7040408@sm.sony.co.jp> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:58:50 +0900 From: "Machida, Hiroyuki" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: ja, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OGAWA Hirofumi CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2][FAT] miss-sync issues on sync mount (miss-sync on utime) References: <43288A84.2090107@sm.sony.co.jp> <87oe6uwjy7.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> In-Reply-To: <87oe6uwjy7.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 830 Lines: 28 OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: > "Machida, Hiroyuki" writes: > > >>+ if ( (!error) && IS_SYNC(inode)) { >>+ error = write_inode_now(inode, 1); >>+ } > > > We don't need to sync the data pages at all here. And I think it is > not right place for doing this. If we need this, since we need to see > O_SYNC for fchxxx() VFS would be right place to do it. I see, I'll look into those. > But, personally, I'd like to kill the "-o sync" stuff for these > independent meta data rather. Then... -- Hiroyuki Machida machida@sm.sony.co.jp SSW Dept. HENC, Sony Corp. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/