Re: [PATCH 05/10] XFS: xfssyncd: don't call xfs_sync

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 06:35:49AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 12:58:56PM -0400, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:57:05PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > ...
> > > @@ -533,8 +538,15 @@ xfs_sync_worker(
> > >  {
> > >   int             error;
> > >  
> > > - if (!(mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_RDONLY))
> > > -         error = xfs_sync(mp, SYNC_FSDATA | SYNC_BDFLUSH | SYNC_ATTR);
> > > + if (!(mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_RDONLY)) {
> > > +         xfs_log_force(mp, (xfs_lsn_t)0, XFS_LOG_FORCE);
> > > +         xfs_finish_reclaim_all(mp, 1, XFS_IFLUSH_DELWRI_ELSE_ASYNC);
> > > +         /* dgc: errors ignored here */
> > 
> > Again, why?
> 
> Same again. No context for returning an error to someone useful,
> and will only fail in a shutdown situation.

We should probably put this is as comment her and in the previous spot
to avoid this question coming up again.