On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 19:32:42 +0300 Sougata Santra <sougata@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hfsplus_sync_fs always updates volume header information to disk with every > sync. This causes problem for systems trying to monitor disk activity to > switch them to low power state. Please fully describe these "problems"? I'm guessing that the fs will write the volume header even if it didn't change, so a sync operation against a completely clean fs still performs a physical write. But I'd prefer not to have to guess! > Also hfsplus_sync_fs is explicitly called > from mount/unmount, which is unnecessary. During mount/unmount we only want > to set/clear volume dirty sate. -- 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
