On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 07:31:32PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > And actually I think it is much better to have sync_inode, which means > we'll be able to get rid of commit_metadata (which should be an inode > operation anyway, not an export operation which really should deal with > exporting filesystems to a non-vfs namespace, not nfsd hacks). > > commit_metadata would just be sync_inode with a null range or no data > sync flag set. As explained in the previous mail it's not just not writing data, it's conceptually quite different from fsync. -- 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
