On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 04:57:55PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > I agree with you that userspace shouldn't have to call fsync. What I > meant is that sys_fallocate() or do_fallocate() can call > generic_write_sync(file, pos, len), and that would be completely > transparent to userspace.
That's different from how everything else in the I/O path works. If filessystem want to use it, that's fine, but I suspect most could do it more efficiently. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
