From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755905AbZICPj0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Sep 2009 11:39:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755834AbZICPjZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Sep 2009 11:39:25 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:42951 "EHLO verein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755193AbZICPjZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Sep 2009 11:39:25 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 17:39:26 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jan Kara Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] fsync: wait for data writeout completion before calling ->fsync Message-ID: <20090903153926.GB19337@lst.de> References: <1251899966-7316-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <20090902221838.GA5311@lst.de> <20090903104704.GD5060@duck.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090903104704.GD5060@duck.novell.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Spam-Score: 0 () Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 12:47:04PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > On Thu 03-09-09 00:18:38, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > I think we should add this one ontop: > Agreed. Added to the series. I'll now push the whole series to linux-next > via my fs tree. Thanks. We do also need something similar in writeback_single_inode, but I'm not sure how to do that in a good way, and how fixing this now would interact with Jens' writeback changes. Probably makes sense to postpone it until 2.6.32 at least and possibly try to split data and metadata writeback fully.