Here are patches changing journal_start_commit() and it's JBD2 equivalent to have more sensible meaning of a return value and patches changing ext3_sync_fs() and ext4_sync_fs() back to original state (wrt journal flushing). Honza -- 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