Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762896AbXEPRwU (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 13:52:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758808AbXEPRwL (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 13:52:11 -0400 Received: from lazybastard.de ([212.112.238.170]:52081 "EHLO longford.lazybastard.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756856AbXEPRwK (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 13:52:10 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 19:47:48 +0200 From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Kleikamp , David Chinner , Anton Altaparmakov , Al Viro , Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] introduce I_SYNC Message-ID: <20070516174747.GF8113@lazybastard.org> References: <20070516170110.GC8113@lazybastard.org> <20070516101535.94e44b3b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20070516101535.94e44b3b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1167 Lines: 29 On Wed, 16 May 2007 10:15:35 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2007 19:01:14 +0200 Jörn Engel wrote: > > > This patch introduces a new flag, I_SYNC and seperates out all sync() > > users of I_LOCK to use the new flag instead. > > gack, you like sticking your head in dark and dusty holes. I don't remember enjoying the experience too much. For a day or two I was thinking about quitting and becoming a monk somewhere. > If we're going to do this then please let's get some exhaustive commentary > in there so that others have a chance of understanding these flags without > having to do the amount of reverse-engineering which you've been put through. Not sure how the monasteries would cope with that. Jörn -- I've never met a human being who would want to read 17,000 pages of documentation, and if there was, I'd kill him to get him out of the gene pool. -- Joseph Costello - 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/