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Message-Id: <1246400345.2247.4.camel@iscandar.digidescorp.com>
Date:	Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:19:05 -0500
From:	"Steven J. Magnani" <steve@...idescorp.com>
To:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] FAT: optimize FSINFO writeback

On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 05:57 +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> steve@...idescorp.com writes:
> 
> > Only write the FSINFO block back to disk when its contents change.
> > This optimization can be important when the underlying physical media
> > can wear out, i.e. Flash.
> 
> I have no objection to this though.  Was this tested on recent version?

I tested it on 2.6.30.

> Well, now, we are using sb->s_dirty for fsinfo, so I'm wondering why
> this happen frequently.

My scenario was modifying a sector of an existing file and using
fdatasync() to flush it. The FSINFO sector was being updated even though
nothing about the FAT layout had changed.

> 
> Thanks.

Regards,
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 www.digidescorp.com              Earthling, return my space modulator!"

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