On Wed, 02 Oct 2019 20:47:03 +0530, Saiyam Doshi said: > fs_sync() is wrapper to bdev_sync(). When fs_sync is called with > non-zero argument, bdev_sync gets called. > > Most instances of fs_sync is called with false and very few with > true. Refactor this and makes direct call to bdev_sync() where > needed and removes fs_sync definition. Did you do an actual analysis of where bdev_sync() *should* be called? The note in the TODO was intended to point out that many of the calls are called with 'false' and probably should not be. #ifdef CONFIG_EXFAT_DELAYED_SYNC - fs_sync(sb, false); fs_set_vol_flags(sb, VOL_CLEAN); #endif Consider - with this patch, we are now setting the volume state to clean - but we've not actually flushed the filesystem to disk, which means it's almost guaranteed that the file system is *NOT* in fact clean. Changing all the 'false' that happen before a VOL_CLEAN to 'true' is probably more correct - but still totally wrong if DELAYED_SYNC isn't defined because then we *aren't* syncing to disk at all.