On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 02:25:10AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 03:48:36PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > OK, I don't exactly see why a sync_inode with appropriate flag could > > not solve that problem. I'll take a bit more look through nfs and > > xfs. Thanks... > > We could also overload all inode operations into a single ioctl like > method, but that doesn't make it a good design. I've been a bit busy lately and haven't had time to continue this discussion. Thanks for your input so far, and I'll get back to it soon. I will try to get out a set of changes for current merge window that fix the bulk of the problems without going into areas you disagree with, and then we can have a smaller set of changes we to agree on for next merge window. I will come back and reply to your points when I get a bit more time. -- 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
