From: Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>
To: fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [fuse-devel] [fuse] How to trigger writeback?
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 09:30:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736tyrncj.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJfpegse5hntdfHMOjr8k2Ltw8Jdg_afaZV7fsghbpNt0VgGHw@mail.gmail.com> (Miklos Szeredi's message of "Mon, 24 Sep 2018 10:15:03 +0200")
On Sep 24 2018, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 10:02 AM, Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> How do I trigger writeback from a (writeback-cache enabled) FUSE
>> filesystem?
>
> No way, currently (well, triggering fsync(2)/fdatasync(2) on the
> filesystem would work, but such recursion is considered highly
> hackish).
You mean sync(2)/syncfs(2), not fsync(), right? Unless my manpages are
out of date, fsync() only works on a specific inode.
Best,
-Nikolaus
--
GPG Fingerprint: ED31 791B 2C5C 1613 AF38 8B8A D113 FCAC 3C4E 599F
»Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.«
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-25 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-24 8:02 [fuse] How to trigger writeback? Nikolaus Rath
2018-09-24 8:15 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-09-25 8:30 ` Nikolaus Rath [this message]
2018-09-25 8:48 ` [fuse-devel] " Miklos Szeredi
2018-09-27 8:28 ` Nikolaus Rath
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=8736tyrncj.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org \
--to=nikolaus@rath.org \
--cc=fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net \
--cc=linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mszeredi@redhat.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).