linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/3] ext4: fix data integrity for ext4_sync

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Message-ID: <20130613023238.GA16959@thunk.org>
Date:	Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:32:38 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, jack@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] ext4: fix data integrity for ext4_sync_fs

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 08:41:00PM +0400, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
> Inode's data or non journaled quota may be written w/o jounral so we _must_
> send a barrier at the end of ext4_sync_fs. But it can be skipped if journal
> commit will do it for us.
> 
> Also fix data integrity for nojournal mode.
> changes from v2:
>  fix jbd2_get_latest_transaction() return correct transaction
> changes from v1:
>  skip barrier for async mode
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>

Applied, thanks.

						- Ted
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