# Re: \[PATCH v3\] introduce sys\_syncfs to sync a single file system

- From: Jeff Garzik \<hidden\>
- Date: 2011-03-12 18:31:31 
- List: linux-api
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2011/03/51636
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2011/03/51636/t.md

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On 03/11/2011 10:50 PM, Indan Zupancic wrote:
> If sync(2) didn't exist and people wanted to add it I'd complain too. This
> has all the problems of sync(2), but with the "not sure if all the files are
> on the file system I think" problem added.

You are decades too late, then...

sync_file_range() is not appropriate because that works on only one fd.

The new syscall is fine, and addresses a need.

	Jeff
```