linux-ext4 - Re: A question about function jbd2__journal

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Message-ID: <20150414084356.GC23327@quack.suse.cz>
Date:	Tue, 14 Apr 2015 10:43:56 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Xue jiufei <xuejiufei@...wei.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	"ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com" <ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com>
Subject: Re: A question about function jbd2__journal_restart()

  Hello,

On Tue 14-04-15 11:00:09, Xue jiufei wrote:
> I have a question about function jbd2__journal_restart().
> If we call this function when there's not more credits,
> it may commit the handle's transaction and start another one.
> So a handle can be attached to 2 transaction and can not ensure the
> consistency. It is the caller's responsibility to keep things consistently
> before call jbd2__journal_restart(), right?
  Correct.

								Honza

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Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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