On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 12:14 +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > On Mon 14-09-09 20:36:54, Jens Axboe wrote: > > No, that should work fine. NFS already works fine with the bdi flusher > > threads, so you should just point it at that bdi. > But will it really work well? I mean if we sync the superblock on the > client, it will sync only the private BDI. So it won't sync any directory > inodes because they are on the default_backing_dev_info (NFS leaves > sb->s_bdev at NULL). All directory related operations (link, rename, create, ...) are fully synchronous in NFS. There should be no need to set up anything to synchronise directory inodes. Cheers Trond -- 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