linux-kernel - Re: konqueror deadlocks on 2.6.22

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Date:	Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:54:25 +0300
From:	Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>
To:	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér) <oliver.pntr@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: konqueror deadlocks on 2.6.22

Chris Mason wrote:
> Running fsync in data=ordered means that all of the dirty blocks on the FS
> will get written before fsync returns.

Hm, that's strange, I expected this kind of behaviour from data=journal.

data=writeback should return immediatly, which seems it does, but 
data=ordered should only wait for metadata flush, it shouldn't wait for 
filedata flush.  Are you sure it waits for both?


Thanks!

--
Al

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