Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

quoted text
> 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.

David
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