Re: CVS commit: src/sys

[Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 07:36:15AM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:

> > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 06:18:09PM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> > > 
> > > Module Name:      src
> > > Committed By:     ad
> > > Date:             Tue Apr 29 18:18:09 UTC 2008
> > > 
> > > Log Message:
> > > PR kern/38057 ffs makes assuptions about devvp file system
> > > PR kern/33406 softdeps get stuck in endless loop
> > > 
> > > Introduce VFS_FSYNC() and call it when syncing a block device, if it
> > > has a mounted file system.
> > 
> > This change is not very clear to me; is it for fs's supporting blockdevices 
> > where other fs's are mounted on?
> > 
> > With regards,
> > Reinoud
> 
> it's for filesystems which want to do something when
> their underlying block devices are being VOP_FSYNC'ed.

There is some detail in the PR:

http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=38057

Andrew