On Wed, 09 May 2007 12:07:39 +0100 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

quoted text
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > set_page_dirty() will set I_DIRTY_PAGES only.  ie: the inode has dirty
> > pagecache data.
> > 
> > To tell the VFS that the inode itself is dirty one needs to run
> > mark_inode_dirty().
> 
> But what's the difference in this case?  I don't need to write the inode back
> per se, and the inode attributes can be updated by the mechanism of data
> storage.
> 

Ah.  Well if you don't need to write the inode back then sure, there
shouldn't be a need to mark it dirty.  That's what I was asking ;)

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