Hi, On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 11:35 -0400, Josef Bacik wrote: > Btrfs needs to be able to control how filemap_write_and_wait_range() is called > in fsync to make it less of a painful operation, so push down taking i_mutex and > the calling of filemap_write_and_wait() down into the ->fsync() handlers. Some > file systems can drop taking the i_mutex altogether it seems, like ext3 and > ocfs2. For correctness sake I just pushed everything down in all cases to make > sure that we keep the current behavior the same for everybody, and then each > individual fs maintainer can make up their mind about what to do from there. > Thanks, > > Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxx> The GFS2 bit looks ok to me... Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx> Steve. -- 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