Re: [PATCH] 2.4.8-pre3 fsync entire path (+reiserfs fsync semantic

[Andrew Morton]

Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 06:08:49PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
>     Ow.  You just crippled ext3.
> 
> How so? The Flush all transactions on fsync behaviour that resierfs
> did/does have at present too?  (There are 'fixes' to reiserfs for
> this).

Sorry, Chris - I was being even more than usually stupid.  All
you need do is overload the return value from file_operations.fsync().
It currently returns zero on success or negative error.  You can
just define a return value of "1" to mean that the fs has taken
care of syncing the directory info and no further action is needed
at the fs layer.