patch-2.4.0-test3 linux/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt

• Lines: 19
• Date: Thu Jun 29 15:00:31 2000
• Orig file: v2.4.0-test2/linux/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
• Orig date: Tue Dec 7 09:32:38 1999

diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.4.0-test2/linux/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt linux/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@
 
 struct super_operations {
 	void (*read_inode) (struct inode *);
-	void (*write_inode) (struct inode *);
+	void (*write_inode) (struct inode *, int);
 	void (*put_inode) (struct inode *);
 	void (*delete_inode) (struct inode *);
 	int (*notify_change) (struct dentry *, struct iattr *);
@@ -198,7 +198,8 @@
 	read. Other members are filled in by this method
 
   write_inode: this method is called when the VFS needs to write an
-	inode to disc
+	inode to disc.  The second parameter indicates whether the write
+	should be synchronous or not, not all filesystems check this flag.
 
   put_inode: called when the VFS inode is removed from the inode
 	cache. This method is optional