On Jan 26, 2005, at 9:02 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> I don't follow -- is there a command that does this, short of
> 'mount -u -r /filesys'?  Is there a system call such a command could
> invoke?

I'm not sure there is a direct API for it.  In the kernel, 
vfs_write_suspend() is supposed to do everything that's needed to make 
a file system consistent on-disk.

-- thorpej