Re: [patch] `cp /dev/zero /tmp' (patch against 2.2.9)

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:17:38 -0700 (PDT)

On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>
> I'll merge in the new fsync code. I'm not sure I'll bother using the
> inode page list: it doesn't deal with metadata, so we still need a
> separate per-inode dirty buffer list anyway.

Please take a look at pre-2.3.7-7: I did the fsync() stuff for the page
cache, and I'm pretty confident that we don't even need a per-inode dirty
list with it.

It's untested, but looks ok, and I'll reboot and test shortly,

Linus

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