linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/2] writeback: sync quota after inodes writeback

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Date:	Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:11:37 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...il.com>, jaxboe@...ionio.com,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] writeback: sync quota after inodes writeback

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 02:25:52PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>   Yes, that would make sense but then we have to change quotactl(Q_SYNC,
> ...) to result in calling ->sync_fs() as it does now. Because we have
> to get quota data to disk in response to this call.

That's a callout from the quoatactl code, which we use the quotactl ops
for, so keeping it sounds fine at least from the highlevel design
perspective.

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