On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:54:13AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > Yeah, only that nobody calls that fsync() automatically if the fd is > O_SYNC if I'm right. But maybe calling fdatasync() on the range which was > fallocated from sys_fallocate() if the fd is O_SYNC would do the trick for > most filesystems? That would match how we treat O_SYNC for other operations > as well. I'm just not sure whether XFS wouldn't take unnecessarily big hit > with this. 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
