On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 06:45:50PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > Hum, I think the difference sync vs fsync is too subtle and non-obvious. Agreed. > I can see sensible pairs like: > > __generic_buffers_fsync() - "__" indicates you should know what you > are doing when calling this > generic_buffers_fsync() > > or > > generic_buffers_fsync() > generic_file_fsync() - difficult at this point as there's name > clash > > or > > generic_buffers_fsync_noflush() > generic_buffers_fsync() - obvious what the default "safe" choice > is. > > or something like that. I'd prefer the last option as the most explicit one.
