Hi,
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 14:29:25 -0500, Peter Rival <frival@zk3.dec.com>
said:
> Very good to hear. :) I, being the know-nothing in filesystems that I
> am, have looked at it a little. I added back the updating of
> inode->u.ext2_i.i_osync in ext2_file_write (before and after
> generic_file_write), and I added this into generic_file_write right
> after the call to write_one_page (which is really
> block_write_partial_page):
> if (file->f_flags & O_SYNC)
> writeout_one_page(page);
> and that seems to have made some difference in the behavior, but I don't
> think that it's all that's necessary.
No, it's probably not. We also want to get fdatasync() working right,
so there's a bit more than this involved.
--Stephen
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