[PATCH] add -o flush for fat
Fat is commonly used on removable media. Mounting with -o flush tells the
FS to write things to disk as quickly as possible. It is like -o sync, but
much faster (and not as safe).
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/msdos_fs.h b/include/linux/msdos_fs.h
index bae62d6..ce6c858 100644
--- a/include/linux/msdos_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/msdos_fs.h
@@ -204,6 +204,7 @@
unicode_xlate:1, /* create escape sequences for unhandled Unicode */
numtail:1, /* Does first alias have a numeric '~1' type tail? */
atari:1, /* Use Atari GEMDOS variation of MS-DOS fs */
+ flush:1, /* write things quickly */
nocase:1; /* Does this need case conversion? 0=need case conversion*/
};
@@ -412,6 +413,8 @@
extern int fat_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent,
struct inode_operations *fs_dir_inode_ops, int isvfat);
+extern int fat_flush_inodes(struct super_block *sb, struct inode *i1,
+ struct inode *i2);
/* fat/misc.c */
extern void fat_fs_panic(struct super_block *s, const char *fmt, ...);
extern void fat_clusters_flush(struct super_block *sb);