On Sat, March 12, 2011 19:31, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On 03/11/2011 10:50 PM, Indan Zupancic wrote: >> If sync(2) didn't exist and people wanted to add it I'd complain too. This >> has all the problems of sync(2), but with the "not sure if all the files are >> on the file system I think" problem added. > > You are decades too late, then... I know. > sync_file_range() is not appropriate because that works on only one fd. > > The new syscall is fine, and addresses a need. The new syscall works on only one fd too. The behaviour of the proposed syncfs and an extended sync_file_range is exactly the same. Greetings, Indan -- 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
