On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:45:13AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:13:45AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > > So I wonder if we should either: > > > > > > (a) make data=ordered force block allocation and writeback --- which > > > should just be a matter of disabling the > > > redirty_page_for_writepage() code path in ext4_da_writepage() > > > > We can't do that because we cannot do block allocation there. So we need > > to redirty the page that have unmapped buffer_heads. > > What is preventing us from doing block allocation from > ext4_da_writepage()? > The callback is called with page lock held and we can't start a journal with page lock held. -aneesh -- 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
