* Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:57:36PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > Uh-oh. Someone needs to apply this patch to sync_file_range():
>
> There actually are a few cases where using it makes sense. [...]
Such as? I don't think apps can actually know whether disk blocks
have been 'instantiated' by a particular filesystem or not, so the
manpage:
Some details
None of these operations write out the file’s metadata. Therefore,
unless the appli-
cation is strictly performing overwrites of already-instantiated disk
blocks, there
are no guarantees that the data will be available after a crash.
is rather misleading. This is a dangerous (and rather pointless)
syscall and this should be made much clearer in the manpage.
Thanks,
Ingo
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