Re: [patch] O_SYNC patch 3/3, add inode dirty buffer list support to ext2

[Jeff V. Merkey]

On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 12:01:35PM +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:54:24AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> > 
> > I have not implemented O_SYNC in NWFS, but it looks like I need to add it 
> > before posting the final patches.  This patch appears to force write-through 
> > of only dirty inodes, and allow reads to continue from cache.  Is this
> > assumption correct
> 
> Yes: O_SYNC is not required to force reads to be made from disk.
> SingleUnix has an "O_RSYNC" option which does that, but O_SYNC and
> O_DSYNC don't imply that.

Cool.  ORACLE is going to **SMOKE** on EXT2 with this change.

Jeff

> 
> Cheers,
>  Stephen