On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 04:14:11PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > This looks sane to me, and it does fix the below testcase. > > Care to formally propose it? Can we confirm what is being proposed? From following this thread, I think what folks are suggesting is: 1) Revert the current "ext3/4: wait on all pending ocmmits in ext3/4_sync_fs" 2) Apply Jan's patch "jbd[2]: Fix return value of journal_start_commit()" 3) Also apply Jan's patch "jbd2: Skip commit of a transaction without any buffers" since it appears to be a good optimization (although it's not clear it would happen once we revert (1), above. - 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