Re: [PATCH 1/2] miss-sync changes on attributes (Re: [PATCH 2/2][FAT] miss-sync issues on sync mount (miss-sync on utime))

[OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>]

Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:

>>  /**
>> + * sync_inode_wodata - sync(write and wait) inode to disk, without it's data.
>> + * @inode: the inode to sync
>> + *
>> + * sync_inode_wodata() will write an inode  then wait.  It will also
>> + * correctly update the inode on its superblock's dirty inode lists 
>> + * and will update inode->i_state.
>> + *
>> + * The caller must have a ref on the inode.
>> + */
>> +int sync_inode_wodata(struct inode *inode)
>> +{
>> +	struct writeback_control wbc = {
>> +		.sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL, /* wait */
>> +		.nr_to_write = 0,/* no data to be written */
>> +	};
>> +	return sync_inode(inode, &wbc);
>> +}
>> +
>
> I think this function duplicates write_inode_now()?

write_inode_now() seems to write data pages, but this doesn't write
(.nr_to_write = 0).
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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