On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 06:00:16PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Well.... it's not quite enough. The problem is that for ext3 and > ext4, the actual work of writing the inode happens in dirty_inode(), > not in write_inode(). Which means we need to do something like this. > > I'm not entirely sure whether or not this is too ugly to live; > personally, I think my hack of handling this in update_time() might be > preferable.... .... and this doesn't work because it breaks ext3/ext4's transaction handling, since the writeback thread could be racing against some transactional update of the inode. So I don't see a way of making the queue_io / move_expired_inodes approach to the 24 hour time being tractable. So the alternatives that I can see at this point is either give up on the 24 hour timeout, or we fall back to handling this in update_time(). - 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
