linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] exfat: flush dirty metadata in fsync

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Date:   Mon, 22 Jun 2020 09:27:16 +0900
From:   "Namjae Jeon" <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>
To:     "'Sungjong Seo'" <sj1557.seo@...sung.com>
Cc:     <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] exfat: flush dirty metadata in fsync

> generic_file_fsync() exfat used could not guarantee the consistency of a file because it has flushed
> not dirty metadata but only dirty data pages for a file.
> 
> Instead of that, use exfat_file_fsync() for files and directories so that it guarantees to commit both
> the metadata and data pages for a file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sungjong Seo <sj1557.seo@...sung.com>
Pushed it into exfat #dev. Thanks!