libext2fs: add flag to ext2fs_flush() and ext2fs_close() to avoid fsync
This adds new APIs: ext2fs_flush2 and ext2fs_close2 which take an
extra 'int flags' parameter.
This allows us to pass in an EXT2_FLAG_FLUSH_NO_SYNC flag which avoids
fsync'ing the filesystem when closing it. For the case we have in
mind where we are just constructing a throwaway ext2 filesystem in a
file in order to boot a VM, this saves over 5 seconds during the boot
process and avoids many unnecessary disk writes.
Existing code using ext2fs_flush and ext2fs_close remains unaffected
by this change.
Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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