Re: [PATCH v3] introduce sys_syncfs to sync a single file system

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On Mar 13, 2011, at 9:31 PM, Indan Zupancic wrote:

> 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.

No, it's quite different.   One syncs the entire file system; sync_file_range
requests that the pages associated with a file be pushed to disk --- it says
nothing about the metadata associated with the file.

I'm in favor of the new sys_syncfs system call.

-- Ted

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