linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 04/11] fs/9p: Remove unnecessary superblock flags

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Date:   Sun, 19 Feb 2023 05:30:31 +0900
From:   asmadeus@...ewreck.org
To:     Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...il.com>
Cc:     Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...nel.org>,
        v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net, rminnich@...il.com,
        lucho@...kov.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux_oss@...debyte.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 04/11] fs/9p: Remove unnecessary superblock flags

Eric Van Hensbergen wrote on Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 10:24:17AM -0600:
> That's fair -- and it didn't seem to hurt anything to have DIRSYNC at
> the moment, so I can drop this patch if we think its too much noise.
> I guess it was more of a reaction the filesystem implicitly setting
> mount flags which might override whatever the user intended.  FWIW
> SB_SYNCHRONOUS did seem to have an effect on behavior (although I
> didn't specifically track down where) -- I noticed this because the
> problems Christian found seemed to go away if I mounted the filesystem
> with sync (which basically ended up overriding aspects of the cache
> configuration I guess).

I guess it doesn't hurt either way; happy to keep this patch in doubt.

-- 
Dominique