fs: add sync_inode_metadata

Add a new helper to write out the inode using the writeback code,
that is including the correct dirty bit and list manipulation.  A few
of filesystems already opencode this, and a lot of others should be
using it instead of using write_inode_now which also writes out the
data.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-06 10:48:20 +02:00
committed by Al Viro
parent 81fca44400
commit c37650161a
10 changed files with 30 additions and 41 deletions

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@ -1734,6 +1734,7 @@ static inline void file_accessed(struct file *file)
}
int sync_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc);
int sync_inode_metadata(struct inode *inode, int wait);
struct file_system_type {
const char *name;