Re: Invalidating dentries

[Robert Hancock]

linux-os wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> > Hello list,
> >
> >
> > how can I invalidate all buffered/cached dentries so that ls -l 
> > /somefolder
> > will definitely go read the harddisk?
>
> fsync() on the file(s) in the directory then fsync() on the directory
> itself. For this, one can open the directory as though it was
> just a file, you don't need opendir().

I don't think this is what they want, it sounds like they want to 
effectively clear the read cache for the file system. I'm not sure 
there's an easy way to do that other than maybe umounting and mounting 
the file system again..

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