From: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
To: Horst Reiterer <horst.reiterer@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/cifs: send SMB_COM_FLUSH in cifs_fsync
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:55:44 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <524f69650902201255j60d3074fkc458987c5fc56e9d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.0902202138421.3998@horst-reiterers-macbook-air.local>
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Horst Reiterer
<horst.reiterer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In contrast to the now-obsolete smbfs, cifs does not send SMB_COM_FLUSH
> in response to an explicit fsync(2) to guarantee that all volatile data
> is written to stable storage on the server side, provided the server
> honors the request (which, to my knowledge, is true for Windows and
> Samba with 'strict sync' enabled).
> This patch modifies the cifs_fsync implementation to restore the
Patch seems reasonable at first glance. Will take a look in more
detail this weekend.
--
Thanks,
Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-20 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-20 20:51 Horst Reiterer
2009-02-20 20:55 ` Steve French [this message]
2009-02-21 0:27 ` [linux-cifs-client] " Jeff Layton
2009-02-21 1:21 ` Steve French
2009-02-22 20:50 ` Horst Reiterer
2009-02-22 21:03 ` Steve French
2009-02-22 21:12 ` Horst Reiterer
2009-02-23 1:34 ` [linux-cifs-client] " Jeff Layton
2009-02-23 2:10 ` Jeff Layton
2009-02-23 2:35 ` Steve French
2009-02-23 4:07 ` Steve French
2009-02-23 16:33 ` [linux-cifs-client] " Jeff Layton
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