Re: [PATCH v3] introduce sys_syncfs to sync a single file system

[Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 02:38 +0100, Indan Zupancic wrote:
> > I had a program, actually a set of programs, which test a file-system.
> > And this set of programs needed such a feature quite a lot, to sync the
> > FS which is being tested and nothing else - for both performance reasons
> > and to put more stress to the FS under testing. We used -o remount, rw
> > for this - but this forced us to run under root.
> 
> You could use a tiny setuid root helper binary that does the remount trick.

Yes, but I think this is not elegant solution.

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Artem Bityutskiy (ÐÐÑÑÑÐÐÐ ÐÑÑÑÐ)

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