From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: why does fsync() on a tmpfs directory give EINVAL?
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:29:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050616162933.25dee57b.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42B20317.6000204@nortel.com>
Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com> wrote:
>
> >> Would a patch that makes it
> >>just return successfully without doing anything be accepted?
> >
> >
> > yup.
>
> Currently tmpfs reuses the simple_dir_operations from libfs.c.
>
> Would it make sense to add the empty fsync() function there, and have
> all other users pick it up as well? Is this likely to break stuff?
Isn't simple_sync_file() suitable?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-16 23:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-16 20:07 Chris Friesen
2005-06-16 20:57 ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-16 22:54 ` Chris Friesen
2005-06-16 23:29 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-06-17 1:52 ` Chris Friesen
2005-06-17 1:57 ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-17 4:46 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-06-17 13:32 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-06-17 14:28 ` Chris Friesen
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