Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757430AbZCYToh (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:44:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753716AbZCYTo0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:44:26 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:41878 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752655AbZCYToZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:44:25 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:43:00 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Jens Axboe , Linus Torvalds , Theodore Tso , Ingo Molnar , Alan Cox , Arjan van de Ven , Andrew Morton , Peter Zijlstra , Nick Piggin , David Rees , Jesper Krogh , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29 Message-ID: <20090325194300.GA29731@infradead.org> References: <20090324093245.GA22483@elte.hu> <20090324101011.6555a0b9@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090324103111.GA26691@elte.hu> <20090324132032.GK5814@mit.edu> <20090324184549.GE32307@mit.edu> <49C93AB0.6070300@garzik.org> <20090325093913.GJ27476@kernel.dk> <49CA86BD.6060205@garzik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49CA86BD.6060205@garzik.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 522 Lines: 11 On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 03:32:13PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > So, no, for 95% of Linux users, fsync does _not_ already do that. If > you are lucky enough to use XFS or ext4, you're covered. That's it. reiserfs also does the correct thing. As does ext3 on suse kernels. -- 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/