linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v2] e2fsck: don't flush the FS unless it's actually dirty

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Date:	Tue, 12 Aug 2014 14:39:49 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dan Jacobson <jidanni@...anni.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] e2fsck: don't flush the FS unless it's actually dirty

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:17:07AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> ext2fs_flush2() unconditionally writes the block group descriptors to
> disk even if the underlying FS isn't marked dirty.  This causes the
> following error message on a fsck -n run:...
> 
> v2: Fix test to use $CRCSUM instead of md5sum.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>

Thanks, applied.

As it turns out, I was wrong; there were other users of md5sum in the
tests that I had forgotten about.  Now that we have crcsum, it makes
sense to convert them over to use md5sum as well, so I'll do that.

Thanks again,

						- Ted
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