Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752072Ab1CNKW4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:22:56 -0400 Received: from DMZ-MAILSEC-SCANNER-7.MIT.EDU ([18.7.68.36]:43108 "EHLO dmz-mailsec-scanner-7.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751433Ab1CNKWz convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:22:55 -0400 X-AuditID: 12074424-b7b0bae000000a05-b1-4d7dec7e8e3a Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] introduce sys_syncfs to sync a single file system Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Theodore Tso X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <0b7ab4190f781632fdb9a247f458edc2.squirrel@webmail.greenhost.nl> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:22:44 -0400 Cc: "Sage Weil" , "Greg KH" , "Jonathan Nieder" , "Arnd Bergmann" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Aneesh Kumar K. V" , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, mtk.manpages@gmail.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, hch@lst.de, l@jasper.es Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: References: <201103111255.44979.arnd@arndb.de> <20110311235607.GB15853@elie> <9446ab1a2315c0d2476c30f8315a0503.squirrel@webmail.greenhost.nl> <20110312021001.GA16833@elie> <20110312173217.GA24981@kroah.com> <1e597aedd3d7825dcc0630b1cf2399fa.squirrel@webmail.greenhost.nl> <0b7ab4190f781632fdb9a247f458edc2.squirrel@webmail.greenhost.nl> To: Indan Zupancic X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 695 Lines: 18 On Mar 14, 2011, at 5:27 AM, Indan Zupancic wrote: > > Your new syncfs also operates on files, it's only the name of sync_file_range > which is not very fitting. Other than that, syncing files in weird, nonstandard > ways is what it does and in that sense it's a good place for syncfs functionality. It operates on a file system. It takes a file descriptor as an argument. (Much like the statfs(2) system call.) There's a difference. - Ted -- 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/