Andrey Borzenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 29 July 2005 07:50, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > One idea how to improve situation - continue to mount with dsync (having > > > basically old case) and do frequent sync of filesystem (this culd be > > > started as HAL callout or whatever). Unfortunately, I could not find a > > > way to request a sync (flush) of single mount point or block device. Have > > > I missed something? > > > > It's trivial to do in-kernel but no, I'm afraid there isn't a userspace > > interface for this. > > apparently one should not ask such a question at 7 am. Any reason why > BLKFLSBUF does not suite?
That'll only write back data associated with /dev/hdXX (ie: filesystem metadata) and not the data associated with all the files in the filesystem which is mounted on /dev/hdXX. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/