Re: Question related to XFS sync , especially fsync

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gopala Krishna wrote:
> Hi All,
> Thanks a lot for your response.
> I never thought it might be in a log and not flushed to disk.
> Very good clue.
> 
>>>> It is not XFS problem. It is your problem ;)
> Good comment. Agreed : -).
> 
>>> How are you finding and inode off disk
> 
> I have lot of code getting in to that. To explain that I have to go through
> that complex part of the code to explain in detail.
> 
> Basically once we get indoe number for a given file from the available
> system call, we only depending upon the XFS layout and it's structure.  We
> are  reading super block from a particular disk offset  and calculating
> address for inode offset and its address on the disk and reading directly
> from the disk offset. We are totally depending on XFS on disk layout.

Can I ask why you are doing this? :)

-Eric