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

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Andrew Morton <[email protected]> writes:

> However there's not much point in writing a brand-new function when
> write_inode_now() almost does the right thing.  We can share the
> implementation within fs-writeback.c.

Indeed. We use the generic_osync_inode() for it?

> Isn't write_inode_now() buggy?  If !mapping_cap_writeback_dirty() we
> should still write the inode itself?

Indeed. It seems we should write the dirty inode to backing device's buffers.
sync_sb_inodes() too?  If so, really buggy.. I'll check it.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <[email protected]>
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