Why does sys_fsync have a lock_kernel around it?

Hans Reiser (reiser@idiom.com)
Mon, 18 Oct 1999 16:35:28 +0400

Surely it should unlock before file->f_op->fsync(file, dentry);

This won't scale for large fileservers..... and it seems unjustified.

Hans

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