On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 10:49 -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > After the dirty page has been written to unstable storage, it marks the > inode using I_DIRTY_DATASYNC, which should then ensure that the VFS > calls write_inode() on the next pass through __sync_single_inode.
> I'd rather like to see fs/fs-writeback.c do this correctly (assuming > that it is incorrect now). balance_dirty_pages() wbc.sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE; writeback_inodes() sync_sb_inodes() __writeback_single_inode() __sync_single_inode() write_inode() nfs_write_inode() Ah, yes, I see. That ought to work. /me goes verify he didn't mess it up himself... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/