linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 4/4] jbd2: don't dirty original metadata buffer on abort

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Date:	Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:58:14 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@...achi.com>, adilger@....com,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, jack@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] jbd2: don't dirty original metadata buffer on abort

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 01:36:42PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> > This patch prevents original metadata buffers from being dirtied
> > on abort by clearing BH_JBDDirty flag from those buffers.  Thus,
> > no metadata buffers are written to the filesystem without journaling.
> 
> 	It's not my place to Ack such patches, but I noticed this bug
> during Plumbers, and Eric and Andreas pointed me to this patch, which
> fixes it quite nicely.  Just $0.02 :-)

Already pushed to Linus, and in mainline.  :-)

							- Ted
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