linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix shared/002 and 004 fail issue in xfstests

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Message-ID: <20140407162513.GA9242@thunk.org>
Date:	Mon, 7 Apr 2014 12:25:13 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>,
	Ashish Sangwan <a.sangwan@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix shared/002 and 004 fail issue in xfstests

On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 11:41:15PM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>
> 
> When mounting ext4 with data=journal option, shared/002 and 004 are
> failed on xfstests. Calling ext4_force_commit before
> filemap_write_and_wait_range is needed to flush all data into journal
> on this case.

Hi Namjae,

Thanks for working for this!

Could you include in your commit description of why adding a call to
ext4_force_commit() is necessary to avoid the problem, and what wa
going wrong in the data=journal case?

Thanks,

					- Ted
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