On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 02:39:15PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > This would work fine with XFS and be equivalent to what it does for > > O_DSYNC now. But I'd rather see every filesystem do the right thing > > and make sure the update actually is on disk when doing O_(D)SYNC > > operations. > OK, I don't really have a strong opinion here. Are you afraid that just > calling fsync() need not be enough to push all updates fallocate did to > disk? No, the point is that you should not have to call fsync when doing O_SYNC I/O. That's the whole point of it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
