On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 03:42:56AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > It seems all filesystems but XFS ignore O_SYNC for fallocate, and never > make sure the size update transaction made it to disk. > > Given that a fallocate without FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE very much is a data > operation (it adds new blocks that return zeroes) that seems like a > fairly nasty surprise for O_SYNC users. Hi all, This patch should be fix this problem in ext4. From: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@xxxxxxxxxx> Make sure the transaction to be commited if O_(D)SYNC flag is set in ext4_fallocate(). Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c index 61fa9e1..f47e3ad 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -4356,6 +4356,8 @@ retry: ret = PTR_ERR(handle); break; } + if (file->f_flags & O_SYNC) + ext4_handle_sync(handle); ret = ext4_map_blocks(handle, inode, &map, flags); if (ret <= 0) { #ifdef EXT4FS_DEBUG -- 1.7.4.1 > -- > 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