On Wed, 09 May 2007 12:07:39 +0100 David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > Ah. Well if you don't need to write the inode back then sure, there shouldn't be a need to mark it dirty. That's what I was asking ;) - 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
