Theodore Tso wrote: > 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()" The above seems like the right plan to me. It should address the kernel.org bug about IO on idle partitions. > 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. Maybe not yet, it could probably use more testing/review/soak. -Eric > - 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
