From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262584AbVG2K3J (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2005 06:29:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262563AbVG2K2f (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2005 06:28:35 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.ru ([194.67.23.149]:9732 "EHLO mx3.mail.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262584AbVG2K2W (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2005 06:28:22 -0400 From: Andrey Borzenkov To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Syncing single filesystem (slow USB writing) Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 14:28:05 +0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200507290731.32694.arvidjaar@mail.ru> <20050728205016.1bdf7288.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050728205016.1bdf7288.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart20421901.lHdX1vWJWI"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200507291428.06903.arvidjaar@mail.ru> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart20421901.lHdX1vWJWI Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 29 July 2005 07:50, Andrew Morton wrote: > > One idea how to improve situation - continue to mount with dsync (having > > basically old case) and do frequent sync of filesystem (this culd be > > started as HAL callout or whatever). Unfortunately, I could not find a > > way to request a sync (flush) of single mount point or block device. Ha= ve > > I missed something? > > It's trivial to do in-kernel but no, I'm afraid there isn't a userspace > interface for this. apparently one should not ask such a question at 7 am. Any reason why=20 BLKFLSBUF does not suite? --nextPart20421901.lHdX1vWJWI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBC6gS2R6LMutpd94wRAk7/AJ0cdP+tRYCXjob+r1dtEKjAsKdxEwCeOvEz jTScKRW3IEguH8jqpy94bms= =kHv5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart20421901.lHdX1vWJWI--