WRITE_INODE_NOW
Section: The Linux VFS (9)
Updated: February 2011
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NAME
write_inode_now - write an inode to disk
SYNOPSIS
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int write_inode_now(struct inode * inode, int sync);
ARGUMENTS
inode
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- inode to write to disk
sync
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whether the write should be synchronous or not
DESCRIPTION
This function commits an inode to disk immediately if it is dirty. This is primarily needed by knfsd.
The caller must either have a ref on the inode or must have set I_WILL_FREE.
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