- Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] introduce sys_syncfs to sync a single file system
- From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:29:55 +0200
- Cc: Indan Zupancic <indan@xxxxxx>, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>, Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx, viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, hch@xxxxxx, l@xxxxxxxxx
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- Reply-to: dedekind1@xxxxxxxxx
On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 13:10 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> There might one day be a requirement to be able to initiate a
> resource-management-style writeback against a whole filesystem. When
> that happens, we'll regret not having added a "mode" argument to
> sys_syncfs().
I think Indan is right about an additional argument which could be used
for future extensions, what is the problem adding it?
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Artem Bityutskiy (ÐÐÑÑÑÐÐÐ ÐÑÑÑÐ)
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