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authorSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2009-02-22 00:17:43 +0300
committerSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2009-03-12 04:36:20 +0300
commitb298f223559e0205244f553ceef8c7df3674da74 (patch)
treea65cb2f64d1b999b7b573857a8b33bbb83ff97af /fs/cifs/CHANGES
parentebdcc81c71937b30e09110c02a1e8a21fa770b6f (diff)
downloadlinux-b298f223559e0205244f553ceef8c7df3674da74.tar.xz
[CIFS] Send SMB flush in cifs_fsync
In contrast to the now-obsolete smbfs, cifs does not send SMB_COM_FLUSH in response to an explicit fsync(2) to guarantee that all volatile data is written to stable storage on the server side, provided the server honors the request (which, to my knowledge, is true for Windows and Samba with 'strict sync' enabled). This patch modifies the cifs_fsync implementation to restore the fsync-behavior of smbfs by triggering SMB_COM_FLUSH after sending outstanding data on the client side to the server. Signed-off-by: Horst Reiterer <horst.reiterer@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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diff --git a/fs/cifs/CHANGES b/fs/cifs/CHANGES
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@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ the server to treat subsequent connections, especially those that
are authenticated as guest, as reconnections, invalidating the earlier
user's smb session. This fix allows cifs to mount multiple times to the
same server with different userids without risking invalidating earlier
-established security contexts.
+established security contexts. fsync now sends SMB Flush operation
+to better ensure that we wait for server to write all of the data to
+server disk (not just write it over the network).
Version 1.56
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