On Wed 18-05-11 10:43:27, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > 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"? Oh, right. I mean flush :). Thanks. Honza > > 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
