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Message-ID: <20101129145936.GC26076@infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:59:37 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	npiggin@...nel.dk
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/7] fs: preserve inode dirty bits on failed metadata
 writeback

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 01:06:14AM +1100, npiggin@...nel.dk wrote:
> Otherwise we think the inode is clean even if syncing failed.

The patch itself looks fine, but I'm not sure it's enough.  If we do
an synchronous writeout it could fail long after ->write_inode
has returned.

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