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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?

  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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