- Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] introduce sys_syncfs to sync a single file system
- From: Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:22:44 -0400
- Cc: "Sage Weil" <sage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Greg KH" <greg@xxxxxxxxx>, "Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx>, "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@xxxxxxxx>, linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx, viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, hch@xxxxxx, l@xxxxxxxxx
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On Mar 14, 2011, at 5:27 AM, Indan Zupancic wrote:
>
> Your new syncfs also operates on files, it's only the name of sync_file_range
> which is not very fitting. Other than that, syncing files in weird, nonstandard
> ways is what it does and in that sense it's a good place for syncfs functionality.
It operates on a file system. It takes a file descriptor as an argument. (Much
like the statfs(2) system call.) There's a difference.
- Ted
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