This patch-set makes sysv file-system stop using the VFS '->write_supers()' call-back and the '->s_dirt' superblock field because I plan to remove them once all users are gone. Compile-tested only. If someone can give me a sysv image I could loop-mount and test my changes - I'd appreciate. I could not find any tool to create this ancient file-system. But I think my changes should not break it. Reminder: The goal is to get rid of the 'sync_supers()' kernel thread. This kernel thread wakes up every 5 seconds (by default) and calls '->write_super()' for all mounted file-systems. And the bad thing is that this is done even if all the superblocks are clean. Moreover, many file-systems do not even need this end they do not register the '->write_super()' method at all (e.g., btrfs). So 'sync_supers()' most often just generates useless wake-ups and wastes power. I am trying to make all file-systems independent of '->write_super()' and plan to remove 'sync_supers()' and '->write_super()' completely once there are no more users. ====== Overall status: 1. ext4: patches submitted, https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/3/210 2. exofs: patch submitted, https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/4/211 3. udf: patch submitted, sits in Jan Kara's tree: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/4/233 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs for_testing 4. affs: patches submitted, sit in Al Viro's tree: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/6/400 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs for-next 5. hfs: patches submitted, sit Andrew Morton's tree http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/12/82 6. hfsplus: patches submitted, sit in Andre Morton's tree: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/13/195 7. ext2: done, see commit f72cf5e223a28d3b3ea7dc9e40464fd534e359e8 8. vfat: done, see commit 78491189ddb6d84d4a4abae992ed891a236d0263 9. jffs2: done, see commit 208b14e507c00ff7f108e1a388dd3d8cc805a443 10. reiserfs: done, see commit 033369d1af1264abc23bea2e174aa47cdd212f6f TODO: ufs ====== fs/sysv/inode.c | 18 +----------------- fs/sysv/sysv.h | 1 - 2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) Thanks, Artem. -- 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