On Friday 29 July 2005 15:20, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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. I am confused. BKLFLSBUF boils down to sync_inodes_sb for mounted device, and that appears to write out direty inode pages? What should be used for in-kernel implementation then? I was going to use the same frankly speaking :)
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