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Message-ID: <20110518174327.GB20655@tux1.beaverton.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 10:43:27 -0700 From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...ibm.com> To: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> Cc: tytso@....edu, Edward Goggin <egoggin@...are.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix sending of a barrier and transaction waiting in ext4_sync_file() On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:28:13PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > Hi Ted, > > the two patches below fix ext4_sync_file() to wait for a transaction commit > properly (return value of jbd2_log_start_commit() is not exactly what > ext4_sync_file() thinks it is). It also optimizes / fixes sending of a barrier > in some cases (e.g. in ordered mode with external journal we cannot really > depend on transaction commit to issue a barrier to fs device because we don't > seem to add inode to a transaction for overwrites). Probably a silly nit to pick, but do you mean "flush" instead of "barrier"? --D > > I already fixed ext3 in this regard some time ago but didn't get to porting the > patches to ext4. > > Honza > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in > the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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