linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] introduce sys_syncfs to sync a single file system

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Message-ID: <1300134595.2332.17.camel@koala>
Date:	Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:29:55 +0200
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Indan Zupancic <indan@....nu>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@...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>,
	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 Mon, 2011-03-14 at 13:10 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> There might one day be a requirement to be able to initiate a
> resource-management-style writeback against a whole filesystem.  When
> that happens, we'll regret not having added a "mode" argument to
> sys_syncfs().

I think Indan is right about an additional argument which could be used
for future extensions, what is the problem adding it?

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

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