Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] exfat: add exfat_update_inode()

[Tetsuhiro Kohada]

Thank you for your reply.

> >   	new_dir->i_ctime = new_dir->i_mtime = new_dir->i_atime =
> >   		EXFAT_I(new_dir)->i_crtime = current_time(new_dir);
> >   	exfat_truncate_atime(&new_dir->i_atime);
> > -	if (IS_DIRSYNC(new_dir))
> > -		exfat_sync_inode(new_dir);
> > -	else
> > -		mark_inode_dirty(new_dir);
> > +	exfat_update_inode(new_dir);
> >
> >   	i_pos = ((loff_t)EXFAT_I(old_inode)->dir.dir << 32) |
> >   		(EXFAT_I(old_inode)->entry & 0xffffffff);
> >   	exfat_unhash_inode(old_inode);
> >   	exfat_hash_inode(old_inode, i_pos);
> > -	if (IS_DIRSYNC(new_dir))
> > -		exfat_sync_inode(old_inode);
> > -	else
> > -		mark_inode_dirty(old_inode);
> > +	exfat_update_inode(old_inode);
> This is checking if old_inode is IS_DIRSYNC, not new_dir.
> Is there any reason ?

To eliminate meaningless usage and simplify it.

Th exfat does not have an attribute that indicates whether each file/dir should be synced(such as ext4).
Therefore, sync necessity cannot be set for each inode, so sync necessity of the whole FS setting(sb-> s_flags) is inherited.
As a result, the following values ​​are all the same.
 IS_DIRSYNC (new_dir)
 IS_DIRSYNC (old_dir)
 IS_DIRSYNC (old_inode)
 sb-> s_flags & SB_SYNCHRONOUS | SB_DIRSYNC

In exfat, IS_DIRSYNC only works as a shortcut to sb->s_flags.

Even if S_SYNC or S_DIRSYNC were set to inode->i_flags, the current implementation is inappropriate.
Whether to sync or not should be determined by "IS_DIRSYNC(new_dir)||IS_DIRSYNC(old_dir)", I think.
(Syncing only old_dir is a high risk of losing file)

Whatever, no one sets S_SYNC and S_DIRSYNC in exfat, so the behavior is no different.

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Please tell me your opinion about "aggregate dir-entry updates into __exfat_write_inode()"

BR
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Tetsuhiro Kohada <kohada.t2@xxxxxxxxx>