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Subject: Re: adding proper O_SYNC/O_DSYNC, was Re: O_DIRECT and barriers
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
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On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 17:08 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> #define O_SYNC	(O_FULLSYNC|O_DSYNC)
> 
>  - during the normal merge window I will add a real implementation for
>    for O_FULLSYNC and O_RSYNC
> 
> P.S. better naming suggestions for O_FULLSYNC welcome

Basically you are just ensuring that the metadata changes are being
synced together with the data changes, so how about O_ISYNC (inode
sync)?