linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v1 0/9] do not use s

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Message-ID: <1332424772.18717.37.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:59:32 +0200
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Ted Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Ext4 Mailing List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux FS Maling List <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Maling List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/9] do not use s_dirt in ext4

On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 14:42 +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > But AFAIKC, the whole '__ext4_handle_dirty_super()' also falls-back to
> > marking the superblock as dirty if the file-system has no journal for
> > some reasons, right?
>   Yes. And I wrote that if you do sync_buffer(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_sbh) instead
> of marking superblock dirty, it would be fine.

OK, sorry for not reading carefully, I will take a look at this and all
the places where we use 's_dirt' and try to think how to just eliminate
them. But since I have 0 experience with ext4, I'll probably need some
help, but let's see.

Thanks for reviewing and the feed-back!

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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