diff -u --recursive --new-file linux-2.4.19-call_start2/fs/nfs/dir.c linux-2.4.19-fix_fsync/fs/nfs/dir.c
--- linux-2.4.19-call_start2/fs/nfs/dir.c	Mon Jul  8 15:08:25 2002
+++ linux-2.4.19-fix_fsync/fs/nfs/dir.c	Tue Jul  9 15:26:42 2002
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
 static int nfs_mknod(struct inode *, struct dentry *, int, int);
 static int nfs_rename(struct inode *, struct dentry *,
 		      struct inode *, struct dentry *);
+static int nfs_fsync_dir(struct file *, struct dentry *, int);
 
 struct file_operations nfs_dir_operations = {
 	llseek:		nfs_dir_llseek,
@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@
 	readdir:	nfs_readdir,
 	open:		nfs_open,
 	release:	nfs_release,
+	fsync:		nfs_fsync_dir
 };
 
 struct inode_operations nfs_dir_inode_operations = {
@@ -454,6 +456,15 @@
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * All directory operations under NFS are synchronous, so fsync()
+ * is a dummy operation.
+ */
+int nfs_fsync_dir(struct file *filp, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
 /*
  * A check for whether or not the parent directory has changed.
  * In the case it has, we assume that the dentries are untrustworthy