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Date:	Fri, 7 Jan 2011 02:25:10 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 8/8] fs: add i_op->sync_inode

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 03:48:36PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> OK, I don't exactly see why a sync_inode with appropriate flag could
> not solve that problem. I'll take a bit more look through nfs and
> xfs. Thanks...

We could also overload all inode operations into a single ioctl like
method, but that doesn't make it a good design.
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