On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 01:23:27PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > We need to flush the write cache unconditionally in ->fsync, otherwise
> > writes into already allocated blocks can get lost. Writes into fully
> > allocated files are very common when using disk images for
> > virtualization, and without this fix can easily lose data after
> > an fdatasync, which is the typical implementation for a cache flush on
> > the virtual drive.
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
>
> Fixing my old commit, I guess ;)
Added to the ext4 patch queue (with the "flish" corrected to "flush")
- Ted
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