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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:27:02 -0500 From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com> To: Niels de Vos <ndevos@...hat.com> Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Bryn M. Reeves" <bmr@...hat.com>, Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fs: Invalidate the cache for a parent block-device if fsync() is called for a partition Niels de Vos <ndevos@...hat.com> writes: > Executing an fsync() on a file-descriptor of a partition flushes the > caches for that partition by calling blkdev_issue_flush(). However, it > seems that reading data through the parent device will still return the > old cached data. What problem, exactly, are you trying to fix? Could you please post a reproducer? Cheers, Jeff -- 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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