On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 07:49:31AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > Another idea: add a new generic ioctl() that checks for writeback > errors without syncing anything. That would be fairly simple to do and > sounds like it would be useful, but I'd want to hear a better > description of the use-case before we did anything like that. That's what I mean with my above proposal, except that I though of an fcntl or syscall and not an ioctl.