sync_inode(9)

sync_inode9

Write an inode and its pages to disk.

Usage

int sync_inode(struct inode * inode, struct writeback_control * wbc);

Arguments

inode

the inode to sync

wbc

controls the writeback mode

Overview

sync_inode will write an inode and its pages to disk. It will also correctly update the inode on its superblock's dirty inode lists and will update inode->i_state.

The caller must have a ref on the inode.

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.