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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
