On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:15:58PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Daniel reported that dpkg(1) dies if the root filesystem is a hostfs > because it does not expect fsync(2) to fail with EINVAL on directories. > While fsync(2) is allowed to fail with EINVAL if the filesystem does not > support it we can do better and use noop_fsync() to not confuse userspace > further. Shouldn't hostfs pass the fsync through to the host filesystem? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html