write_inode_now(9)

write_inode_now9

Write an inode to disk

Usage

int write_inode_now(struct inode * inode, int sync);

Arguments

inode

inode to write to disk

sync

whether the write should be synchronous or not

Overview

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.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9

From linux-manual-4.9 4.9.228-1 in Debian 9 (Stretch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.