Make ext2 safer against accidental data loss during removal by adding support for waiting for super block update on sync. Don't know why this wasn't done originally, all the other file systems have it. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger --- a/fs/ext2/super.c 2009-11-17 09:14:12.177002522 -0800 +++ b/fs/ext2/super.c 2009-11-17 09:14:32.698005421 -0800 @@ -1147,6 +1147,8 @@ static int ext2_sync_fs(struct super_blo ext2_sync_super(sb, es); } else { ext2_commit_super(sb, es); + if (wait) + sync_dirty_buffer(EXT2_SB(sb)->s_sbh); } sb->s_dirt = 0; unlock_kernel(); -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html