Similarly to directories, EA inodes do only journalled modifications to their data. Change ext4_should_journal_data() to return true for them so that we don't have to special-case them during truncate. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h index ef8fcf7d0d3b..99fe72522960 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h @@ -407,6 +407,7 @@ static inline int ext4_inode_journal_mode(struct inode *inode) return EXT4_INODE_WRITEBACK_DATA_MODE; /* writeback */ /* We do not support data journalling with delayed allocation */ if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || + ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EA_INODE) || test_opt(inode->i_sb, DATA_FLAGS) == EXT4_MOUNT_JOURNAL_DATA || (ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_JOURNAL_DATA) && !test_opt(inode->i_sb, DELALLOC))) { -- 2.16.4