On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 11:53:12AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > @@ -4926,7 +4926,7 @@ static int ext4_unfreeze(struct super_block *sb) > ext4_set_feature_journal_needs_recovery(sb); > } > > - ext4_commit_super(sb, 1); > + ext4_commit_super(sb, 0); > return 0; > } > After we remove add the NEEDS_RECOVERY flag, we need to make sure recovery flag is pushed out to disk before any other changes are allowed to be pushed out to disk. That's why we originally did the update synchronously. There are other ways we could fulfill this requirements, but doing a synchronous update is the simplest way to handle this. Was it necessary to change this given the other changes you are making the fs freeze implementation? - Ted