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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c index 65e78c13d4ae..5f60363b9343 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c +++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c @@ -184,19 +184,24 @@ xfs_file_release( return -xfs_release(XFS_I(inode)); } +/* + * We ignore the datasync flag here because a datasync is effectively + * identical to an fsync. That is, datasync implies that we need to write + * only the metadata needed to be able to access the data that is written + * if we crash after the call completes. Hence if we are writing beyond + * EOF we have to log the inode size change as well, which makes it a + * full fsync. If we don't write beyond EOF, the inode core will be + * clean in memory and so we don't need to log the inode, just like + * fsync. + */ STATIC int xfs_file_fsync( struct file *filp, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync) { - int flags = FSYNC_WAIT; - - if (datasync) - flags |= FSYNC_DATA; xfs_iflags_clear(XFS_I(dentry->d_inode), XFS_ITRUNCATED); - return -xfs_fsync(XFS_I(dentry->d_inode), flags, - (xfs_off_t)0, (xfs_off_t)-1); + return -xfs_fsync(XFS_I(dentry->d_inode)); } /* |