Re: [PATCH] 2.4.8-pre3 fsync entire path (+reiserfs fsync semantic change patch)

Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Sat, 4 Aug 2001 11:20:26 +1200


On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 07:15:59PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:

<shrug> credentials cache. 2.5 fodder. Notice that with NFS you
don't have fsync for directories. At all. So that's not a problem
in that particular case - you can pass NULL on all subsequent
iterations. On the first step you need struct file * - NFS needs
credentials to pass to the server.

How about passing NULL then for now? --- and explicitly requiring
->fsync accept NULL for the first argument and ignore it? It would be
nice to know that this is the case then though, because we could stop
immediately.

--cw

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