On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 02:33 +0100, Indan Zupancic wrote: > > I think that you missed the point of the extension. > > > > Ric > > The point is clear, it's to synchronize a specific file system instead > of all of them. > > But actually doing that from a program is harder than it looks, because > programs work with files, not file systems. To make this feature useful > the program needs meta information it can't easily get. That was my first > point.
I had a program, actually a set of programs, which test a file-system. And this set of programs needed such a feature quite a lot, to sync the FS which is being tested and nothing else - for both performance reasons and to put more stress to the FS under testing. We used -o remount, rw for this - but this forced us to run under root. IOW, there are programs which take a mount point as an input parameter and want do things with the whole FS, not only individual files. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
