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Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:37:44 -0400 From: Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU> To: "Indan Zupancic" <indan@....nu> Cc: "Jeff Garzik" <jeff@...zik.org>, "Ric Wheeler" <ricwheeler@...il.com>, "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>, "Sage Weil" <sage@...dream.net>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, "Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@...il.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org, mtk.manpages@...il.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, hch@....de, l@...per.es Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] introduce sys_syncfs to sync a single file system On Mar 13, 2011, at 9:31 PM, Indan Zupancic wrote: > The new syscall works on only one fd too. The behaviour of the proposed > syncfs and an extended sync_file_range is exactly the same. No, it's quite different. One syncs the entire file system; sync_file_range requests that the pages associated with a file be pushed to disk --- it says nothing about the metadata associated with the file. I'm in favor of the new sys_syncfs system call. -- Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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