On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 02:39:37AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > When journalling data for an inode (either because it is a symlink or > because the filesystem is mounted in data=journal mode), ext4_evict_inode() > can discard unwritten data by calling truncate_inode_pages(). This is > because we don't mark the buffer / page dirty when journalling data but only > add the buffer to the running transaction and thus mm does not know there > are still unwritten data. > > Fix the problem by carefully tracking transaction containing inode's data, > committing this transaction, and writing uncheckpointed buffers when inode > should be reaped. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Thanks, applied to the ext4 tree. - Ted -- 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
