Re: Potential data consistency issue with ASYNC_COMMIT feature

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> However, journal checksums failed horribly when we tried to enable
> them by default during the last merge window, because of bugs in ext4
> where we were modifying certain metadata blocks (in particular
> superblock and xattr's) without journalling them.  (Note to self; we
> need to back port those fixes to ext3; the lack of journalling in
> xattr in particular could mean that in some cases we could lose some
> updates that could affect SELINUX after a crash.)
  Already done by Eric and merged ;): d965736b8cb42ae51ba9c3f13488035a98d025c6,
b918397542388de75bd86c32fbfa820e5d629fa9.

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SuSE CR Labs
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