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Subject: Re: [fuse-devel] [fuse] How to trigger writeback?
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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out of date, fsync() only works on a specific inode.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

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