On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 01:10:16PM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: > Don't we already have this bit since Linux 2.4.0-test12? I_DIRTY_SYNC > is admittedly not well-named for "smudged". But it used to mean just > that. I_DIRTY_DATASYNC was the real dirty bit. Which, in I_DIRTY_PAGES, > has been split into I_DIRTY_DATASYNC and I_DIRTY_PAGES. > > Now we just have to use sane names. We're currently forcing a new commit if I_DIRTY_SYNC or I_DIRTY_DATASYNC (but not necessarily I_DIRTY_PAGES) is set. If I_DIRTY_SYNC really means "smudged" (I believe you but I'll want to go through the code and prove it to myself :-), then this might be a very easy fix. We'll need to make sure that unmount time we do actually force out all inodes even if only I_DIRTY_SYNC is set. (And then, we should rename things to more sane names. :-) - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
