Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932472AbVJLGLD (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Oct 2005 02:11:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932471AbVJLGLD (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Oct 2005 02:11:03 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:50641 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932472AbVJLGLA (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Oct 2005 02:11:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:10:15 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Machida, Hiroyuki" Cc: hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dhowells@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] miss-sync changes on attributes (Re: [PATCH 2/2][FAT] miss-sync issues on sync mount (miss-sync on utime)) Message-Id: <20051011231015.6a1c4c5b.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <434CA527.90604@sm.sony.co.jp> References: <43288A84.2090107@sm.sony.co.jp> <87oe6uwjy7.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <433C25D9.9090602@sm.sony.co.jp> <20051011142608.6ff3ca58.akpm@osdl.org> <87r7armlgz.fsf@ibmpc.myhome.or.jp> <20051011211601.72a0f91c.akpm@osdl.org> <87psqbxreb.fsf@ibmpc.myhome.or.jp> <434CA527.90604@sm.sony.co.jp> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 944 Lines: 28 "Machida, Hiroyuki" wrote: > > > > OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: > > Andrew Morton writes: > > > > > >>However there's not much point in writing a brand-new function when > >>write_inode_now() almost does the right thing. We can share the > >>implementation within fs-writeback.c. > > > > > > Indeed. We use the generic_osync_inode() for it? > > Please let me confirm. > Using generic_osync_inode(inode, NULL, OSYNC_INODE) instaed of > sync_inode_wodata(inode) is peferable for changes on fs/open.c, > even it would write data. Is it correct? > I don't know. It depends on what you're actually trying to do, and I don't recall anyone having described that! - 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/