On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 06:24:32AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > That's definitely what I want for the endgame here. My plan was to add > this flag for now, and then eventually reverse it (or drop it) once all > or most filesystems are converted. > > We can do it that way from the get-go if you like. It'll mean tossing in > a patch add this flag to all filesystems that have an fsync operation > and that use the pagecache, and then gradually remove it from them as we > convert them. > > Which method do you prefer? Please do it from the get-go. Or in fact figure out if we can get away without it entirely. Moving the error reporting into ->fsync should help greatly with that, so what's missing after that?