From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Cc: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] __bd_forget should wait for inodes using the mapping
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 14:27:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040618142710.5d467d1b.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1087591484.1512.14.camel@watt.suse.com>
Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> wrote:
>
> [ skip writing block-special inodes ]
>
> Hmmm, any risk in missing data integrity syncs because of this?
Need to think about that. sys_fsync(), sys_fdatasync() and sys_msync() go
direct to file->f_mapping and sys_sync() will sync the blockdev via its
kernel-internal inode. What does that leave?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-18 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-18 1:54 Chris Mason
2004-06-18 2:01 ` Chris Mason
2004-06-18 2:10 ` viro
2004-06-18 13:03 ` Chris Mason
2004-06-18 14:22 ` viro
2004-06-18 14:47 ` Chris Mason
2004-06-18 15:15 ` viro
2004-06-18 15:41 ` Chris Mason
2004-06-18 15:43 ` viro
2004-06-18 16:05 ` Chris Mason
2004-06-18 20:26 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-18 20:44 ` Chris Mason
2004-06-18 21:27 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-06-18 23:15 ` Chris Mason
2004-06-18 23:25 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-18 14:20 ` Chris Mason
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