Re: [PATCH 2/2][FAT] miss-sync issues on sync mount (miss-sync on utime)

From: OGAWA Hirofumi
Date: Thu Sep 15 2005 - 08:16:22 EST


"Machida, Hiroyuki" <machida@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> + if ( (!error) && IS_SYNC(inode)) {
> + error = write_inode_now(inode, 1);
> + }

We don't need to sync the data pages at all here. And I think it is
not right place for doing this. If we need this, since we need to see
O_SYNC for fchxxx() VFS would be right place to do it.

But, personally, I'd like to kill the "-o sync" stuff for these
independent meta data rather. Then...
--
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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