On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:28:13PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > Hi Ted, > > the two patches below fix ext4_sync_file() to wait for a transaction commit > properly (return value of jbd2_log_start_commit() is not exactly what > ext4_sync_file() thinks it is). It also optimizes / fixes sending of a barrier > in some cases (e.g. in ordered mode with external journal we cannot really > depend on transaction commit to issue a barrier to fs device because we don't > seem to add inode to a transaction for overwrites). Probably a silly nit to pick, but do you mean "flush" instead of "barrier"? --D > > I already fixed ext3 in this regard some time ago but didn't get to porting the > patches to ext4. > > 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 -- 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
