Re: [PATCH 3/3] AFS: Implement basic file write support

On Wed, 09 May 2007 12:07:39 +0100 David Howells [off-list ref] wrote:

Andrew Morton [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

set_page_dirty() will set I_DIRTY_PAGES only.  ie: the inode has dirty
pagecache data.

To tell the VFS that the inode itself is dirty one needs to run
mark_inode_dirty().

But what's the difference in this case?  I don't need to write the inode back
per se, and the inode attributes can be updated by the mechanism of data
storage.

Ah.  Well if you don't need to write the inode back then sure, there
shouldn't be a need to mark it dirty.  That's what I was asking ;)