On Sat, 04 Aug 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Sorry, Chris - I was being even more than usually stupid. All
> you need do is overload the return value from file_operations.fsync().
> It currently returns zero on success or negative error. You can
> just define a return value of "1" to mean that the fs has taken
> care of syncing the directory info and no further action is needed
> at the fs layer.
But ensure that the user space never sees the "1" return value from
fsync() itself.
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