From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754298AbZBVVDo (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:03:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752799AbZBVVDf (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:03:35 -0500 Received: from mail-gx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.217.174]:46588 "EHLO mail-gx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752773AbZBVVDe (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:03:34 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=NlwrF2iPxN0wweFCysduzW+/iDtmFyd567P5fIug0e32QMcve+ULNQJpUiZQGo9fs0 kfD6gJlnzBGjNiLoqgMKrHmuFaBZdEPqY81lnuMuZo+h0U3VThVSEWb+0eaHmOCIW52S 2/ugdMg3HmWbD65UhsR+l7CTI/6M+a+ycWShw= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <524f69650902201721l1c7f0d34p4708980a90d7fc8f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:03:32 -0600 Message-ID: <524f69650902221303h37feb366k3d89a07bfd100ea3@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/cifs: send SMB_COM_FLUSH in cifs_fsync From: Steve French To: Horst Reiterer Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Horst Reiterer wrote: > In any case, it's probably a good idea to introduce a mount option. The > new behavior should be enabled by default though, to provide maximum data > consistency. Suggestions on what to call such a new mount option? How about "nostrictfsync" ? -- Thanks, Steve