On Monday 09 August 2010, Sage Weil wrote: > Currently the only way to sync a single super_block (and not all of them > via sync(2)) is via the BLKFLSBUF ioctl on the block device. That also > invalidates the bdev mapping, which isn't usually desireable, and it > doesn't work for non-block file systems. The ability to sync a single > mount can be useful for both applications and administrators (e.g., when > other mounts on the system are hung). You need to add this to the compat_ioctl handling as well, otherwise it won't work when you run a 32 bit process in a 64 bit kernel. Adding it to the ioctl_pointer[] array is probably the easiest way. Arnd -- 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
