To ensure that bits are truly on-disk after an fsync or fdatasync, we should force a disk flush explicitly when there is dirty data/metadata and the journal didn't emit a write barrier (either because metadata is not being synched or barriers are disabled). Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- diff -urNp linux-2.6.29-rc5-orig/fs/ext3/fsync.c linux-2.6.29-rc5/fs/ext3/fsync.c --- linux-2.6.29-rc5-orig/fs/ext3/fsync.c 2008-12-25 08:26:37.000000000 +0900 +++ linux-2.6.29-rc5/fs/ext3/fsync.c 2009-02-16 15:56:05.000000000 +0900 @@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ int ext3_sync_file(struct file * file, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync) { struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode; + journal_t *journal = EXT3_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_journal; + unsigned long i_state = inode->i_state; int ret = 0; J_ASSERT(ext3_journal_current_handle() == NULL); @@ -69,23 +71,30 @@ int ext3_sync_file(struct file * file, s */ if (ext3_should_journal_data(inode)) { ret = ext3_force_commit(inode->i_sb); - goto out; + if (!(journal->j_flags & JFS_BARRIER)) + block_flush_device(inode->i_sb); + return ret; } - if (datasync && !(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_DATASYNC)) - goto out; + if (datasync && !(i_state & I_DIRTY_DATASYNC)) { + if (i_state & I_DIRTY_PAGES) + block_flush_device(inode->i_sb); + return ret; + } /* * The VFS has written the file data. If the inode is unaltered * then we need not start a commit. */ - if (inode->i_state & (I_DIRTY_SYNC|I_DIRTY_DATASYNC)) { + if (i_state & (I_DIRTY_SYNC|I_DIRTY_DATASYNC)) { struct writeback_control wbc = { .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL, .nr_to_write = 0, /* sys_fsync did this */ }; ret = sync_inode(inode, &wbc); + if (journal && !(journal->j_flags & JFS_BARRIER)) + block_flush_device(inode->i_sb); } -out: + return ret; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html