linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH RESEND] ext4: make sure O_(D)SYNC semantic in ext4

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Message-ID: <20120523011941.GA6830@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 23 May 2012 09:19:41 +0800
From:	Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@...il.com>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@...bao.com>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] ext4: make sure O_(D)SYNC semantic in
 ext4_fallocate()

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 04:47:43PM +0800, Zheng Liu wrote:
> Ext4 must make sure the transaction to be commited to the disk when user opens
> a file with O_(D)SYNC flag and do a fallocate(2) call.
> 
> This problem had been reported by Christoph Hellwig in this thread:
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg13621.html

Hi Ted,

Could you please review this patch?  Thank you.

Regards,
Zheng  
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