On Dec 09, 2008 17:09 -0800, Joel Becker wrote: > This adds triggers to jbd2 buffer heads. Just before writing a metadata > buffer to the journal, jbd2 will optionally call a commit trigger associated > with the buffer. If the journal is aborted, an abort trigger will be > called on any dirty buffers as they are dropped from pending > transactions. It would be a useful exercise to see if changing the group descriptor checksum to use this mechanism. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- 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