Re: [PATCH] hostfs: Use noop_fsync for directories

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:15:58PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Daniel reported that dpkg(1) dies if the root filesystem is a hostfs
> because it does not expect fsync(2) to fail with EINVAL on directories.
> While fsync(2) is allowed to fail with EINVAL if the filesystem does not
> support it we can do better and use noop_fsync() to not confuse userspace
> further.

Shouldn't hostfs pass the fsync through to the host filesystem?
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