Re: [PATCH] ovl: Sync upper dirty data when sync overlayfs

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On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 11:27 AM, cgxu <cgxu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 在 2017年11月28日,下午5:00,Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> 写道:
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 10:18 AM, cgxu <cgxu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>> [...]
>>>> Unless I am missing something subtle here, you should export vfs
>>>> __sync_filesystem and call it from here instead of duplicating it.
>>>> Any technical reason not to do it?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Actually, not a technical reason. How about below modification?
>>> If it looks good I’ll send patch on new mail thread.
>>>
>>
>> Much better. See one nit below.
>> Why new mail thread? It is better if you send V3 patch with same subject
>> and change log since V2, so maintainer knows this patch supersedes
>> the previous one.
>>
>
> Thank you, got it.
> BTW, currently I use mainline tree, should I rebase on overlay-next? or other tree?
>

Current overlay-next is merged to master and your patch makes very
little changes
outside fs/overlayfs so the answer is it doesn't matter.
Usually you should rebase on overlay-next when posting a patch to overlayfs
maintainer.

Cheers,
Amir.
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