Re: [Virtio-fs] [PATCH] virtiofs: propagate sync() to file server

2021-04-20 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 05:08:48PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote: > Even if POSIX doesn't mandate it, linux users legitimately expect > sync() to flush all data and metadata to physical storage when it > is located on the same system. This isn't happening with virtiofs > though : sync() inside the guest r

[PATCH] virtiofs: propagate sync() to file server

2021-04-19 Thread Greg Kurz
Even if POSIX doesn't mandate it, linux users legitimately expect sync() to flush all data and metadata to physical storage when it is located on the same system. This isn't happening with virtiofs though : sync() inside the guest returns right away even though data still needs to be flushed from t