From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263069AbTJJRU1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:20:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263073AbTJJRU0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:20:26 -0400 Received: from agminet02.oracle.com ([141.146.126.229]:1934 "EHLO agminet02.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263069AbTJJRUZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:20:25 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:20:02 -0700 From: Joel Becker To: Chris Friesen Cc: Jamie Lokier , Linus Torvalds , Trond Myklebust , Ulrich Drepper , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: statfs() / statvfs() syscall ballsup... Message-ID: <20031010172001.GA29301@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mail-Followup-To: Chris Friesen , Jamie Lokier , Linus Torvalds , Trond Myklebust , Ulrich Drepper , Linux Kernel References: <20031010122755.GC22908@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <20031010152710.GA28773@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <20031010160144.GI28795@mail.shareable.org> <20031010163300.GC28773@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <3F86E51D.3090605@nortelnetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F86E51D.3090605@nortelnetworks.com> X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 12:58:05PM -0400, Chris Friesen wrote: > > Because you can't force flush/read. You can't say "I need you > >to go to disk for this." > > According to my man pages, this is exactly what msync() is for, no? msync() forces write(), like fsync(). It doesn't force read(). Joel -- "Get right to the heart of matters. It's the heart that matters more." Joel Becker Senior Member of Technical Staff Oracle Corporation E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127