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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] introduce sys_syncfs to sync a single file system
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
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On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 13:10 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> There might one day be a requirement to be able to initiate a
> resource-management-style writeback against a whole filesystem.  When
> that happens, we'll regret not having added a "mode" argument to
> sys_syncfs().

I think Indan is right about an additional argument which could be used
for future extensions, what is the problem adding it?

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

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