I'm getting the following error if I try to create and activate a swap file defined on an ext4 filesystem: [ 34.406479] swapon: file is not committed The swap file is created in the root filesystem (ext4 mounted with the following options): $ grep " / " /proc/mounts /dev/vda1 / ext4 rw,relatime 0 0 No matter how long I wait or how many times I run sync, I'm still getting the same error and the swap file is never activated. A git bisect shows that this issue has been introduced by the following commit: aa75f4d3daae ("ext4: main fast-commit commit path") Simple test case to reproduce the problem: # fallocate -l 8G /swapfile # chmod 0600 /swapfile # mkswap /swapfile # swapon /swapfile Maybe we're missing to mark the inode as clean somewhere, even if the transation is committed to the journal? Thanks, -Andrea