Re: multi-core system and the file system

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 03:26:31PM +0100, Matej Kosik wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to ask, whether there is some intelligent way how to
> synchronize processes over the file-system state.
> 
> E.g., if one process creates|modifies|deletes some file,
> how can I learn *when* that effect hits all cores?
> (not just the one where I executed those operations)

All the processors share the VFS system. You could start with
Overview of the Linux Virtual File System which is in 
kernel/documentation/vfs.txt

and

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/fs/vfstour.html

-dsr-