Re: [PATCH v3] introduce sys_syncfs to sync a single file system

[Theodore Tso]

On Mar 14, 2011, at 5:27 AM, Indan Zupancic wrote:

> 
> Your new syncfs also operates on files, it's only the name of sync_file_range
> which is not very fitting. Other than that, syncing files in weird, nonstandard
> ways is what it does and in that sense it's a good place for syncfs functionality.

It operates on a file system.  It takes a file descriptor as an argument.  (Much
like the statfs(2) system call.)  There's a difference. 

- Ted

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