Re: [PATCH v3] introduce sys_syncfs to sync a single file system
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- Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
- Date
- 2011-03-14 01:37:44
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- Indan Zupancic, 2011-03-14
On Mar 13, 2011, at 9:31 PM, Indan Zupancic wrote:
The new syscall works on only one fd too. The behaviour of the proposed syncfs and an extended sync_file_range is exactly the same.
No, it's quite different. One syncs the entire file system; sync_file_range requests that the pages associated with a file be pushed to disk --- it says nothing about the metadata associated with the file. I'm in favor of the new sys_syncfs system call. -- Ted