Andrey Borzenkov <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Friday 29 July 2005 07:50, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > One idea how to improve situation - continue to mount with dsync (having
> > > basically old case) and do frequent sync of filesystem (this culd be
> > > started as HAL callout or whatever). Unfortunately, I could not find a
> > > way to request a sync (flush) of single mount point or block device. Have
> > > I missed something?
> >
> > It's trivial to do in-kernel but no, I'm afraid there isn't a userspace
> > interface for this.
>
> apparently one should not ask such a question at 7 am. Any reason why
> BLKFLSBUF does not suite?
That'll only write back data associated with /dev/hdXX (ie: filesystem
metadata) and not the data associated with all the files in the filesystem
which is mounted on /dev/hdXX.
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