Re: [PATCH v6 12/20] fs: add a new fstype flag to indicate how writeback errors are tracked

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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.

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