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Commit ac13a829 authored by Fabian Frederick's avatar Fabian Frederick Committed by Linus Torvalds
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fs/libfs.c: add generic data flush to fsync



Description by Jan Kara:
 "A lot of older filesystems don't properly flush volatile disk caches
  on fsync(2) which can lead to loss of fsynced data after power failure.

This patch makes generic_file_fsync() issue proper cache flush to fix the
problem.  Sysadmin can use /sys/devices/.../cache_type to tell the system
it should not send the cache flush."

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuke ifdef]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: default avatarFabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Suggested-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Suggested-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent fd2916bd
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