Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
