On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 06:42:12AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > Correct. > > But if there is a data writeback error, should we report an error on all > open fds at that time (like we will for fsync)? We should in theory, but I don't see how to properly do it. In addition sync_file_range just can't be used for data integrity to start with, so I don't think it's worth it. At some point we should add a proper fsync_range syscall, though. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>