On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 01:34:29PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > But Ted changed XFS to copy timestamps to on-disk structure from the > in-memory inode fields after VFS updated the timestamps. So the stamps > should be coherent AFAICT, shouldn't they? Not coherent enough. We need the XFS ilock to synchronize reading from and writing to the time stamps. update_time() only has i_mutex, which we can't take for the transaction commit path. -- 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
